‘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.
Kieran Baker extended interview
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Taking care: the different areas of medicine safety
In its landmark Medicine Safety: Take Care report, PSA identified the frightening cost of medicine misadventure in Australia. With medicines safety a central theme...
Greater pharmacist role in Aboriginal health trialled
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Pharmacy strategy to unite global regions
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The 21st...
Prenatal vitamin D for schizophrenia
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GPs use antibiotics as placebos: study
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