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...
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...
