Reducing polypharmacy Don Quixote style

Title: Reducing polypharmacy Don Quixote style
Creator: Regal, P.
Relation: Internal Medicine Journal Vol. 42, Issue 11
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02957.x
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2012
Description: Betteridge and colleagues from Christchurch Hospital have provided useful information on the increase in long-term medications in their acute medical unit. The slogan of geriatric medicine in the 1980s could have been taken from the sheep in George Orwell’s ground- breaking novel Animal Farm written in 1946, which chanted ‘four legs good, two legs baaaad’. In the case of geriatric medicine, the slogan was ‘no medicines good, ten medicines baaad’
Subject: polypharmacy; inappropriate medications; geriatric medicine; PIM
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1297067
Identifier: uon:19366
Identifier: ISSN:1444-0903
Language: eng

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