‘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.
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How to deal with stress in the pharmacy
Two experts set out how to deal with patient and pharmacist anxiety over myriad recent changes.
