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Pharmacy at home: service for frail older patients demonstrates medicines risk reduction and admission avoidance Subscription
The Exeter Cluster Pharmacy team is part of an integrated community health and social care service, providing domiciliary medicines optimisation to around 145,000 people.
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How useful are medicines helplines for patients discharged from hospital? Subscription
This paper suggests that patient helplines support medicines optimisation by ensuring patients have easy access to pharmacy experts to discuss concerns about their medicines and improve the quality of their pharmaceutical care.
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The package user test: a method for improving medicines packaging Subscription
This paper describes a new performance-based package user test that has the potential to improve drug package design and therefore reduce drug selection errors.
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We are all part virus — the role of human endogenous retroviruses Subscription
Viruses lurk in our genome and science is only now starting to understand the important role that they might play in health and disease. Kalliopi Dodou and Paul Whiteley explain.
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Integrated examinations: supporting students with team-based learning Subscription
Jason Hall and colleagues explain how Manchester Pharmacy School is applying team-based learning to the MPharm course to integrate science and practice modules.
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A review of Controlled Drug incidents reported to the NRLS over seven years Subscription
To describe the number and types of patient safety incidents involving Controlled Drugs reported to the National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS) and the role of Accountable Officers for CDs (AOs) in incident reporting and learning.
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The clinical impact of pharmacist interventions in an emergency unit Subscription
Abstract Aim To evaluate the clinical impact, quantity and quality of pharmacist interventions in potential patients’ outcomes in a high risk area, in this case an emergency assessment unit. These interventions were related to identifying, preventing and resolving drug related problems.
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Intervention monitoring in paediatrics as a strategy to improve prescribing Subscription
To describe a system of regular intervention monitoring among paediatric patients and how the information is used to inform the content of different strategies aimed at improving prescribing practice.
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A study of pharmacy services provided to hospital admission units in Wales Subscription
To ascertain the provision of pharmacy services to hospital admission units across Wales. The principles and processes used were based on those devised in a previous all-Wales study, where trainee pharmacists submitted data as part of the audit process. Comparison of data was facilitated by using a uniform method.
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Reducing missed medicine doses in preoperative surgical inpatients Subscription
Aim: To decrease the frequency of missed medicines doses in preoperative general surgical patients.
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