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6373216

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1984-7-5
pubmed:abstractText
This review delineates the pharmacist's controversial clinical role in nursing homes as it has developed within the legal, social, and economic climate of the Medicaid and Medicare conditions of participation. Special problems of the geriatric institutionalized patient include polypharmacy, adverse reactions, the overuse of prn drugs, and inadequate physician contact. These problems are compounded by an impoverished scientific data-base for appropriate drug use in the aged. Studies that clarify the impact consultant pharmacists have on the number of drugs prescribed, adverse reactions, and cost containment are compiled and evaluated. It is shown that pharmacists can reduce the number and cost of drugs. Physician acceptance of pharmacists' recommendations was found to be at least 60 percent in these reports. Well-controlled studies are lacking in the literature.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0012-6578
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
428-33
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
The role of the pharmacist in a geriatric nursing home: a literature review.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't