- 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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