Using an Electronic Decision Support Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy and Optimize Medicines: Rationale and Methods
Using an Electronic Decision Support Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Polypharmacy and Optimize Medicines: Rationale and Methods
Amber Young
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, BPharm,PGCertPharm,PGCertGPP ;
June Tordoff
1
, BPharm (Hons),MPharm,PhD ;
Susan Dovey
2
, MPH,PhD ;
David Reith
3
, PhD,FRACP ;
Hywel Lloyd
2, 4
, MB,ChB ;
Murray Tilyard
2, 4
, BSc,MB ChB,DipObst,MD ;
Alesha Smith
1, 4
, BSc,MSc,PhD
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New Zealand’s National School of Pharmacy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
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Department of General Practice and Rural Health, Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
3
Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
4
Best Practice Advocacy Centre (BPAC), Dunedin, New Zealand
Corresponding Author:
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Amber Young, BPharm,PGCertPharm,PGCertGPP
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New Zealand’s National School of Pharmacy
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University of Otago
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PO Box 56
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Dunedin, 9054
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New Zealand
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Phone:
64 34797321
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Fax: 64 3 479 7034
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Email: amber.young@otago.ac.nz