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Medication Safety Watch – Issue 10, June 2014
Issue 10 of the Medication Safety Watch newsletter, a bulletin for all health professionals and health care managers working with medicines or patient safety.
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Medication Safety Watch – Issue 11, September 2014
Issue 11 of the Medication Safety Watch newsletter, a bulletin for all health professionals and health care managers working with medicines or patient safety.
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Just and fair culture
This training video illustrates the principles of a just and fair culture; in a just culture, people feel safe and secure to speak up when an error occurs.
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Pain-relieving medicines for acute pain – information for patients
The Health Quality & Safety Commission, Choosing Wisely and the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists have developed an information leaflet to help patients, caregivers and whānau use opioid medicines safely, to manage non-cancer pain.
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Gary's story: a consumer perspective on taking warfarin
This is the story of Gary Edwards, a 60-year-old builder from Waitarere Beach, who ended up on Warfarin after a cardiac event.
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Evaluation of the safe use of opioids national collaborative
This report presents an evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission-led safe use of opioids national collaborative.
- Video: Introducing the safe use of opioids collaborative
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John's story: Managing warfarin safely
Hear John Smith tell his story of how he became seriously ill after taking warfarin and what has changed in the management of his warfarin as a result.
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Specify brand advice guidance – updated July 2023
Refreshed guidelines for the application of specify brand advice (SBA) for medicines within electronic systems.
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ALERT: Prescribing by weight in children
This 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.