High risk medications in care homes: a retrospective analysis of administration error

• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-PPR-024
• By: AL-HAMADANI, Fadya (Cardiff University, School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Fadya Al-Hamadani* (1), Efthymia Mantzourani (1), Mark Gumbleton (1), Delyth James (2), Mathew Smith

  1) School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, 2) School of Sport & Health Sciences, Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  

• Abstract:

  Background

  Residents of care homes are particularly at risk of medicines related harm due to complex pathologies and polypharmacy. The American Geriatric Society produces Beers Criteria, a list of medications that are potentially inappropriate in older adults as they pose an unwanted risk of medicines related harm.

  Purpose

  The purpose of this

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