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Failure to manage risk of falls, mix of meds contributes to man’s death

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Failure to manage risk of falls, mix of meds contributes to man’s death

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Alan
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Monday 25 November 2019, 04:30 PM
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A DHB was faulted for failing to manage a patient’s falls risk and reconcile his medications
“No effort was made to reconcile the drugs he had been taking at hospital and at home” A cognitively impaired elderly man on hypotensive drugs h

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