‘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.
The Inspector
The pharmacovigilance inspector role is fairly new to Australia. It requires tact, tenacity, excellent time management and travel. Sarah May became the Therapeutic Goods...
Running for the shelter of a ‘mother’s little helper’
The popularisation of meprobamate from the 1950s onwards ushered in the dawn of the psychopharmacological era where patients began to look to doctors to...
Experts answer your top practice questions
Our experts answer your questions about the end of digital image prescriptions, administering Novavax as a booster, supervising rapid antigen tests and more.
Nicotine replacement therapy for smoking cessation
Pharmacists can play an important role in supporting patients to quit smoking,3 along with general practitioners, helplines and online services.
Masters student takes out 2020 Pharmacy Student of the Year
Kurtis Gray, a final year Master of Pharmacy student at the University of Western Australia (UWA), is the 2020 PSA Mylan Pharmacy Student of the Year.
Top tips for supporting transgender patients
Pharmacists' frequent interactions with transgender patients can shape their perception of the healthcare system.
