‘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.Solutions for minimising medicine stockpiling
Many pharmacists have likely come across expired medicines, kept 'just in case' for later use. But stockpiling can create a number of medicine safety risks.
Inside a multidisciplinary antenatal vaccination clinic
To protect pregnant women and their unborn babies from the severe adverse outcomes associated with the virus, the first pharmacist-led COVID-19 vaccination clinic for pregnant women opened in Western Australia’s King Edward Memorial Hospital on 20 September.
TGA outcomes of listed sunscreen products review
Pharmacists may recall news headlines earlier this year about people experiencing significant sunburn despite application of high sun protection factor sunscreens.
Reports were accompanied...
Research winners for PSA18
Researchers examining polypharmacy within aged populations have won the best paper and best poster categories at PSA18.
Lauren Corre and a team of University of...
What collaborative prescribing could look like for pharmacists
PSA CEO Dr Shane Jackson has backed the likelihood of pharmacists being able to prescribe under a collaborative framework by the end of next...
2019 year in review
It was a big year for Australian pharmacists, with the release of important reports calling for reform for the profession and providing a vision...
