Health professional perspectives on the management of multimorbidity and polypharmacy for older patients in Australia
Author(s) -
Kevin McNamara,
Bianca Daphne Breken,
Hamzah Alzubaidi,
J. Simon Bell,
James Dunbar,
Christine Walker,
Andrea Hernan
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
age and ageing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1468-2834
pISSN - 0002-0729
DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afw200
Subject(s) - polypharmacy , medicine , nursing , workload , health care , workaround , metropolitan area , pharmacy , family medicine , qualitative research , social science , pathology , sociology , computer science , economics , programming language , economic growth , operating system
delivering appropriate care for patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy is increasingly challenging. Challenges for individual healthcare professions are known, but only little is known about overall healthcare team implementation of best practice for these patients.
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