‘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.
Is technology helping make medicine use in Australia safer?
After chairing the Medication Safety and Efficiency Conference, Deborah Hawthorne reflects on whether digital health is making care safer.
Are antibiotics courses for common infections too long?
In the fight against antibiotic resistance, shorter courses of antibiotics are now recommended for patients with common infections, but how short is long enough?
The...
Antidepressants and benzodiazepines for major depression
This evidence summary presents the best available evidence regarding the efficacy and safety of a combination of antidepressants and benzodiazepines for adults with major...
Ocular changes
A patient inquiry about ocular changes may provide pharmacists with an opportunity to screen or refer patients to an optometrist.
Loneliness
Despite being the most technologically connected society in history, we appear to be the loneliest. Robust scientific evidence has declared loneliness a significant danger to the health of the individual and the public health system.
Compounding complexities
Growing in scale, how can pharmacists make sense of the increasing complexities associated with compounding?
