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‘There has been a seemingly generic move towards referring to “independent prescribers”; however, this is not inclusive of the range and diversity of professional prescribing annotations’ .
There were four main themes identified from the semi-structured interviews. These were cross-referenced against the qualitative responses from the initial investigative survey and were seen to align...
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA, 2014) defines a medication error as: ‘a patient safety incident where there has been an error in the process of prescribing, preparing,...
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Good practice in prescribing opioid medicines for pain should reflect fundamental principles in prescribing generally. The decision to prescribe is underpinned by applying best professional...
A literature review was conducted to gain an overview of the use of the terms ‘compliance,’ ‘adherence’ and ‘concordance’ alongside the meanings that have been attached to them. A search of English...
Pharmacies have played a vital role during the pandemic, not only by ensuring a stable supply of key medicines, but also in becoming an information hub regarding the virus. Many pharmacies are now the...
A 61-year-old Azerbaijani woman was admitted to Imam Khomeini hospital in Urmia, in north west Iran. She had a kidney transplant on 5 October 2018. The patient had a history of end-stage renal disease...
Both the College of Paramedics (CoP) (2018) and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society (RPS) (2016) are clear that, as non-medical prescribers, advanced paramedics are required to review and critically...
TD is a neurological disorder that is characterised by involuntary movements of the face and jaw (Royal College of Psychiatrists [RCPsych], 2019); described by Waln and Janovic (2013) as any ‘tardive...
The authors began by acknowledging that a drug's benefit-risk balance depends on the situation in which it is applied. It is recognised that evidence and patient-level data are often insufficient to...
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