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Medication safety, prescribing and the medicines management process in mental healthA review of what is known about medication safety within mental health.
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ALERT 11: DabigatranPurpose: To highlight the risks associated with the use of dabigatran
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ALERT 12: HeparinPurpose: To highlight the risks for patients on heparin and to promote safer practice.
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ALERT 13: Caffeine citrate oral solutionPurpose: To highlight and reduce the risk of inadvertent under or overdosing with caffeine citrate oral solution solution.
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Parent information - Help us to help your childA leaflet about medicines safety for the parents of children coming into hospital.
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Patient information - Help us to help youA leaflet about medicines safety for patients coming into hospital.
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ALERT: Prescribing by weight in childrenThis alert was developed in response to a request by the Health and Disability Commissioner following a case where the dose of medicine for a baby was calculated using a weight recorded as being kilograms when it was actually pounds and ounces.
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ALERT 14: Oral Methotrexate - once weekly dosingThis alert highlights that patient harm and death have occurred when the weekly dosing schedule of methotrexate is inadvertently prescribed, dispensed or administered as an incorrect daily dose.
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Medication Safety FactsheetReducing medication errors is the focus of a factsheet released today by the Health Quality & Safety Commission.
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Medication Reconciliation in the Hospital: What, Why, Where, When, Who and How?Authors from the University of Toronto take a closer look at the key questions of medicine reconciliation in this Healthcare Quarterly article