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How often do hospital doctors change long term medication during an inpatient stay?
FromThe BMJ Podcast
How often do hospital doctors change long term medication during an inpatient stay?
FromThe BMJ Podcast
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27 minutes
Released:
Sep 14, 2018
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Podcast episode
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More than ½ of patients leave hospital with changes to four or more of their long-term medications - but how appropriate are those changes?
New research published on bmj.com looks at antihypertensive medication prescription changes to try and model that - and found that more than half of intensifications occurred in patients with previously well controlled outpatient blood pressure.
To discuss what they found, we're joined by Timothy Anderson, primary care research fellow, and Michael Steinman, professor of medicine, both from UCSF.
Read the open access research:
https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3503
New research published on bmj.com looks at antihypertensive medication prescription changes to try and model that - and found that more than half of intensifications occurred in patients with previously well controlled outpatient blood pressure.
To discuss what they found, we're joined by Timothy Anderson, primary care research fellow, and Michael Steinman, professor of medicine, both from UCSF.
Read the open access research:
https://www.bmj.com/content/362/bmj.k3503
Released:
Sep 14, 2018
Format:
Podcast episode
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