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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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Reducing opioid-related harm and building quality improvement capability in New Zealand: a national formative collaborativeThis poster 'Reducing opioid-related harm and building quality improvement capability in New Zealand: a national formative collaborative' was presented at the IHI's 28th annual national forum on quality improvement in health care.
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Evaluation of the safe use of opioids national collaborativeThis report presents an evaluation of the Health Quality & Safety Commission-led safe use of opioids national collaborative.
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ALERT 17: Alteplase or tenecteplase?An alert has been issued to highlight the need to clearly differentiate between stroke thrombolysis and myocardial infarction thrombolysis.
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Specify brand advice guidance – updated May 2019Refreshed guidelines for the application of specify brand advice (SBA) for medicines within electronic systems.
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Safe Medication Management newsletters - 2010Newsletters from the SMM programme for the year 2010