· Fully updated text, with information on new medications released as recently as November 2003

· New Information based on current clinical guidelines, such as the 2003 JNC 7 Report

· New assessment instrument on medication appropriateness

· New table on common herbal and alternative medications used by older adults, with side effects and cautions

· New sections on hospital discharge planning, carpal tunnel syndrome, skin ulcers, and syncope

· New algorithms on evaluation of hypoproliferative anemia, pharmacologic management of osteoarthritis, pain assessment in elders with severe cognitive impairment, and evaluation of suspected pulmonary emboli