by Eric Christianson | Apr 6, 2025 | Polypharmacy Cases And The Prescribing Cascade
Deprescribing is an important part of care for hospice patients. The main goal of hospice care is to focus on comfort care rather than curative treatments, which means evaluating if a patient’s current medications are still indicated, effective, safe, and convenient....
by Eric Christianson | Dec 17, 2014 | Drug Interaction Case Studies and Education For Pharmacists
I was at a long term care facility and had a patient on lisinopril 10 mg daily for hypertension as well as Aspirin 325 mg daily for cardiovascular prophylaxis. Lexi-comp has the aspirin and lisinopril interaction rated at a C (on a scale of A-D and X being...