Benjamin Basger

MSc BPharm DipHPharm

Contact Details

Room: Room N507
Telephone: +61 2 9036 7081
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Degree: Doctor of Philosophy
Supervisor: Dr Tim Chen
Associate Supervisor: Dr Rebekah Moles

Areas of Research Interest: Inappropriate drug therapy in the elderly.

Inappropriate drug therapy in the elderly.

The Australian elderly, like the elderly elsewhere, suffer disproportionately from drug morbidity due to many factors. There have been many workers who have attempted to develop either lists of potentially inappropriate drugs in the elderly, or other types of quality prescribing indicators. This work began in the USA in 1991, and despite the development and presence of many such lists or indicators since then, two aspects stand out (1) There is very little proof that all these efforts have been effective, and (2) No such lists or indicators have been developed for Australians using Australian data. This PhD aims to develop these lists or indicators and test them.