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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 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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Oxycodone: How did we get here and how do we fix itThis article from Best Practice Journal (July 2014) 'How did we get here and how do we fix it' focuses on the increase in prescribing of oxycodone.
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ARRC mini-collaborative evaluation report and case studiesThis toolkit is designed to help health care staff undertake quality improvement, specifically those working in aged residential care (ARC).
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Consumer flyer: Ask your pharmacist for advice about your medicinesConsumer flyer: help with your medicines is available – ask your pharmacist for advice.
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Gary's story: a consumer perspective on taking warfarinThis is the story of Gary Edwards, a 60-year-old builder from Waitarere Beach, who ended up on Warfarin after a cardiac event.