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ALERT 14: Oral Methotrexate - once weekly dosing

Medicines (Reducing harm) Multimedia
16 Nov 2021

The purpose of this alert is to highlight that patient harm and death have occurred in New Zealand when the weekly dosing schedule of methotrexate is inadvertently prescribed, dispensed or administered as an incorrect daily dose.

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Published: 16 Nov 2021 Modified: 16 Nov 2021