Dec 9, 2020
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...
Dec 4, 2020
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...
Nov 30, 2020
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...
Nov 30, 2020
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...
Nov 23, 2020
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...
Nov 23, 2020
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...
