Top 10 Drug Classes to Understand With Adult and Geriatric Patients

Course overview

Interprofessional healthcare team members often treat patients with multiple comorbidities and conditions. These patients may require medications for a variety of symptoms and disease processes. However, adverse effects and potential drug-drug interactions may further contribute to the patients' symptoms to be managed. This course provides a quick overview of more than a hundred different medications by categorizing them into the top 10 common categories and describing them according to their actions and effects on the body. Practitioners will also learn precautions such as the drug-drug interactions, drug-disease interactions, and common adverse events to be monitored per drug class. Case studies and monitoring systems will also be provided as practical applications. Further information will be shared, to include evidence-based protocols for medication reconciliation, deprescribing interventions, collaboration and communication initiatives, and education principles for patients and caregivers.