‘We’re increasingly seeing incidents where alert fatigue has been identified as a contributing factor. It’s not that there wasn’t an alert in place, but that it was lost among the other alerts the clinician saw,’ Prof Baysari says.New Cochrane review highlights lack of evidence on medicine-taking ability and...
Interventions initiated at the hospital-community interface may be the best way to influence multiple medicine adherence in older adults, a new Cochrane review has found.
Advances in telehealth
Telehealth for pharmacists has been around for some time, but will its expansion during the COVID-19 pandemic era make it normal practice?
Pharmacists scramble to protect remote communities from COVID-19
Clusters of infection in regional and remote areas continue to grow, with overworked pharmacists adapting their services to minimise the spread.
Role of pharmacists recognised around the world
Pharmacists across Australia and the globe came together on 25 September to celebrate the 10th annual World Pharmacists Day.
With the theme of ‘safe and...
Oxford Uni vaccine ‘highly effective’ against COVID-19
The University of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine, which is easier to transport and cheaper to produce than other vaccine candidates, is ‘highly effective’, late stage trials of the vaccine have shown.
Changes to PBS antibiotic prescribing
In a move aimed at reducing antibiotic resistance, the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) has recommended that four of the most widely prescribed antibiotics...
