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Difficult to define a uniform threshold for treatment complexity and feasibility

• Difficult to define a uniform threshold for treatment complexity and feasibility

• Influenced by

• Treatment regimen
• Older adult’s unique characteristics

• Barriers to assessing complexity and feasibility

• Time-consuming
• Lack of necessary training

~100,000 emergency hospitalizations/year due to adverse drug events (ADEs)

• ~100,000 emergency hospitalizations/year due to adverse drug events (ADEs)

• 10.7% of hospital admissions in older adults

• “If medication related problems were ranked as a disease, it would be the fifth leading cause of death in the US!”

Absorption

• Absorption

• Other drugs, nutrition, gastric emptying
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