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Oriel numeracy test: what pharmacy students need to know Subscription
The Oriel numeracy test is designed to examine your ability to solve practice-based calculations. Here is what you need to consider before and during this assessment.
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Your pharmacy calculations prep guide
Babir Malik’s top tips for approaching the calculations paper in the GPhC registration assessment.
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Calculation questions in the preregistration exam must be fair and reflect real-world practice Subscription
Over the past 20 years I have supported preregistration students, particularly with calculations in the preregistration exam. One advantage of the old multiple-choice question style was that the answer was given in the correct format with the correct units. In the new style of question, assistance is limited to a box in which to enter a number and the examinee is required to enter the correct units. I have been asked for help with these questions used for preregistration training — ...
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Tipping the scales: the problem of drug dosing in obese patients Subscription
As obesity levels rise, pharmacists are finding they need new tools to ensure they adequately tailor the amount of medicine patients receive.
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How to ace pharmacy calculations
Newly qualified pharmacists Abida Begum and Urvasi Patel share their eight tips for tackling the calculations paper in the GPhC registration assessment.
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Genotype-guided warfarin dosing could improve safety Subscription
Patients receiving genotype-guided dosing of warfarin were less likely to have a major bleed or die than patients whose dosing was clinically guided.
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Bodyweight-based growth hormone dosing excessive for obese patients Subscription
Researchers argue that alternative dosing strategies for obese patients, in particular children, should be rigorously trialled.
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Applying pharmacokinetics to clinical practice Subscription
Clinical pharmacokinetics, 6th edition, edited by John E Murphy
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How to identify and manage ‘problem’ excipients in medicines for children Subscription
Children may be exposed to potentially harmful excipients, essential components of drug formulations, through unlicensed and off-label use of adult medicines. Excipient exposure should be minimised, although a medicine containing a problem excipient may be indicated, but only after a careful risk–benefit assessment.
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Modelling approach could optimise drug combination choice Subscription
Researchers used polynomial modelling to simulate complex drug-dose effects and found that they could accurately predict the dose-effect function of drug combinations.
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