‘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.
Childhood vaccinations
In recent years jurisdictional regulations have been amended enabling Australian pharmacists to administer some vaccines to children.
9 recommendations to fix the mental health medicines crisis
Pharmacists' QUM expertise is vital to optimising therapy and preventing harm, says PSA’s newest medicine safety report.
Barriers to use of smoking cessation therapies in pregnancy
Women are required to stop some smoking cessation pharmacotherapies when they find out they are pregnant. Here's what needs to change.
The best apps for sleep
A range of devices and apps are tailored to monitor and promote restful sleep. Here’s the pick of the field.
Just over a third (39%)...
PSA recommendations to improve medicine use in disability care
A critical lack of information about medicine use by people with disability prevents pharmacists from promoting the quality use of medicines within a vulnerable group.
Can pharmacists help prevent doping in sport?
The recent release of the updated 2019 List of Prohibited Substances and Methods from the World-Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) raises the question about the relationship...
