Drug-related problems in the frail elderly As pharmacists and physicians working in a geriatric day hospital (GDH), we read with interest your November 2010 issue, which covered aspects of care of the elderly, and greeted with enthusiasm the initiative to describe approaches to common geriatric problems.1 We would like to reinforce the need to consider the importance of medication assessment an...

The aging population in developed countries is a growing problem nowadays. The burden on healthcare is particularly high, since the prevalence of the diseases, especially chronic diseases increases with age. Prevalence of polypharmacy is common among elderly patients. While comorbidities require usage of several active agents with evidence based indication, polypharmacy increases the likelihood...

In October 1999 an outpatient clinic for drug related problems was initiated at the Academic Medical Centre in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. This collaboration between the Departments of Clinical Pharmacology (now Pharmacology and Pharmacotherapy), Dermatology and the Hospital Pharmacy, aims at supporting physicians in their care for patients with possibly drug related problems. One hundred thirt...

one of the main problems of the drug abusers is drug related attention bias, which causes craving, and as a result drive the drug abusers to take narcotics. methadone is used as a maintenance treatment for drug abusers. the purpose of this study is evaluation of the effect of methadone maintenance therapy (mmt) on selective attention and drug related attention bias. this study investigated drug...