Feb 1, 2019
In a landmark report commissioned by the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, startling findings about the extent of medication-related iatrogenic harm are presented. The sobering headlines: 250,000 hospital admissions result from medication-related problems each year...
Feb 1, 2019
Australian researchers have recently published a study that assessed use of medicines associated with delirium prior to hospital admission in older people with a recorded diagnosis of delirium. This retrospective observational study used de‐identified data from the...
Feb 1, 2019
E-cigarettes are used by some people trying to quit smoking, but to date there has not been a robust study to compare the efficacy of this approach to the utility of nicotine replacement products as smoking-cessation treatments. In a head to head trial, subjects were...
