‘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.Pharmacists play a key role in cow’s milk allergy diagnosis
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Patients with COPD terrified of contracting COVID-19
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The 4-decade remote rural pharmacist
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