A recently published research piece published in the British Medical Journal has raised questions about an an approach that is widely lauded and promoted by its protagonists. A study by a Canadian group examined improvements achieved with clinical decision support...
Canadian researchers have added to the considerable raft of evidence in support of thee use of SGLT2 inhibitor drugs as a means to reduce cardiovascular events. In a large study the risk of cardiovascular events observed in subjects treated with sodium glucose...
An Australian study has examined opioid-related medication safety incidents there documented in all public hospitals in a single state of Australia , between 1 July 2017 and 30 June 2018. Opioids were implicated in 11.0% (857) of all medication‐related clinical...
Australian researchers have recently published a study that sought todetermine the effect of introducing an electronic medication management system (EMMS) upon deprescribing practice, examining admission & discharge drugs prescribed to patients admitted to an...
Problematic opioid use has been linked to specific single risk factors such as patient characteristics, extended duration of use and increased doses, bu the simultaneous effects of these individual factors has not been specifically examined. Australian researchers...
