The rational pharmacotherapy in older patients: the expert consensus 2012 on medications and treatments potentially inappropriate in the old age in Czech Republic
2013
Abstract
In this article we present recommendations for rational pharmacotherapy and potentially inappropriate medications in older persons according to Czech explicite criteria from 2012. Polymorbidity, frailty and disability are specific clinical signs in the old age.
In this article we show on risk of polypharmacy at elderly people. It is also important a role of clinical pharmacists in praxis.