Progress on strategies of rational medication in older adults

Objective Irrational pharmacotherapy is a common and severe phenomenon which happened in elderly people, it easily induces adverse outcomes, for example, increasing adverse drug reaction, mortality in hospital and the cost of drugs. The geriatric irrational pharmacotherapy are caused by lots of factors, and it is a challenge to clinical works in rational and optimized pharmacotherapy because of elderly complications and multiple pharmacotherapy which faced to doctors. Practical and effective treatment strategies and interventions are keys to geriatric rational pharmacotherapy. This paper will propose various of pharmacotherapy strategies in order to promote rational pharmacotherapy for the elderly patients. Key words: Drug toxicity; Drug monitoring