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- Medication Safety Watch - Issue 2, May 2012
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Gary's story: a consumer perspective on taking warfarin
This is the story of Gary Edwards, a 60-year-old builder from Waitarere Beach, who ended up on Warfarin after a cardiac event.
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Update on Ora® product supply shortage (September 2023)
Due to a manufacturing issue, Ora® products are likely to be in limited supply for the coming months before resupply in early November 2023.
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Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy
This review from the Annals of Internal Medicine discusses the use of medication reconciliation as a patient safety tool to reduce the risk of medication errors when patient transfers occur in hospital.
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Recommended International Non-proprietary Names (rINNs)
International Nonproprietary Names (INNs) are the official generic names for pharmaceuticals as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO).
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Safety Signal: Changes to the labelling of Bicillin LA®
Following international practice, the name and strength description for Bicillin LA® has been changed. The expression of the name will now be benzathine benzylpenicillin tetrahydrate. The expression of product strength will now be 1,200,000 units/2.3