Prescribing medications is a complex task. More than that, it is difficult to prescribe to geriatrics. Why because they suffered a lot due multiple co-morbidity, reduced pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes. For that clinicians prescribe multiple drugs. That leads to suboptimal prescribing, drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, adverse drug reactions, decrease quality of life, increase more hospital stay and cost and finally death may occur. To avoid those problems some criteria’s and lists are helpful. Education is needed for physicians to update the knowledge regarding gerontology. Clinical pharmacist should play an active role to minimize the errors occurred during prescribing.
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