‘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.
Pandemic puts the spotlight on medicine safety in aged care
The COVID-19 pandemic has made pharmacists even more vital for medicine safety in aged care, a royal commission has been told.
On the right page
For Dr Amy Page FPS, it’s the challenge of building something new that has made her career to date so rewarding.
A preventable tragedy that changed drug approval forever
Thalidomide’s period of use may have been short but its ramifications have lasted decades, both for people who suffer deformities from its effects and...
Night moves
Dimitra Tsucalas FPS, co-owner of Ascot Vale Supercare Pharmacy, has seen it all. From late-night triage, shift workers, opioid seekers and everything in between,...
Real-time prescription monitoring comes to South Australia
South Australia is the latest state to introduce RTPM in a nation-wide effort to curb addiction, overdose and death.
The extent of drug-related problems in HMRs
Research highlights the vital role HMRs play in averting medicine misadventure.
In 2016, members of the PSA Accredited Pharmacist Leadership Group (APLG) undertook an...
