‘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.QUT student takes out 2021 Pharmacy Student of the Year
Queensland University of Technology student Zoe Robinson has been crowned the 2021 Pharmacy Student of the Year (PSOTY), following a strong competition at PSA21 Virtual yesterday.
Red tape stops pharmacists from helping patients affected by floods
Pharmacists have been stranded without access to more than 730 PBS medicines struck off the Continued Dispensing initiative measure.
Electrolytes part 1: potassium and magnesium
Electrolytes play an important role in the function of body tissues including skeletal and cardiac muscle.
Improving patient health literacy
The evidence is in: positive health outcomes can hinge on patients’ ability to understand health information – and on pharmacists’ ability to impart it.
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Confusion between third primary and booster doses abounds
Third primary doses of COVID-19 vaccines for severely immunocompromised people and booster doses for the general population were both approved last month, but pharmacists report patients are having trouble distinguishing between the two.
New safety alert for co-prescribing opioids and gabapentinoids
Gabapentinoids and opioids are commonly co-prescribed, whether to treat acute pain post-surgery or to address chronic pain. Here’s how to mitigate risk when these medicines are combined.
