The prevalence, severity and type of preventable medication harm in a medical care setting has been quantified in a systematic review and meta-analysis recently conducted by researchers in the United Kingdom. From 81 studies involving 285,687 patients, the pooled...
Vitamin D supplementation has for some time been suggested as a falls prevention strategy for older people, but there remains an evidence gap with respect to the best dosing approach: researchers have recently compared the effects of four different doses of vitamin D3...
The safety of a pharmacist-led discharge prescribing model has been evaluated in a prospective, randomised controlled study conducted in an Australian geriatric medical ward. Phase 1 of the study investigated handwritten prescriptions and involved 45 patients who...
