There are two types of people in this world. Everybody else and Tom Jones. Happy 84th birthday to this legend. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

The June issue of #AustralianPrescriber highlights prescribing in three key areas: community-acquired #pneumonia, hypertension and #Alzheimer disease. Some new drug comments are also included for drugs recently marketed in Australia. Discover the issue: buff.ly/3VK8wGu

Uncover the nuances of deprescribing antihypertensive drugs for frail older adults. Balancing potential benefits and harms is key for optimal care. Learn more: bit.ly/3XuxXwZ CMUS UniSA University of Sydney Emily Reeve Aili Langford Danijela Gnjidic

Biologic therapies for #Alzheimer disease are under review by the TGA in Australia. This brief review summarises the evidence and outlines some of the challenges associated with the use of these drugs. australianprescriber.tg.org.au/articles/new-a…

Fascinating population study exploring the rates of severe acute liver injury after initiation of medications that have published case reports describing liver injury. #medicinesafety #ADR jamanetwork.com/journals/jamai…

Happy to hear from Wiley that our article on #paracetamol dosing in older people was in the top 10 most downloaded articles published in the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology in 2022. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology (BJCP) Austin Health CMUS bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Med shortages impact our workload - to keep meds on shelves & patients safe…changing g’lines, EMR orders, relabelling…Kudos to Tim, our amazing purchasing officer! ⁦@the_shpa⁩ ⁦TGA Australia⁩ ⁦ABC News Health⁩ ⁦⁦Pharmacy - Austin Health, Australia⁩ link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great use of #EMR Eastern Health #Pharmacy Dept to improve discharge #medicinesafety. Implementation of EMR-generated Patient Medicine Lists & Interim Medication Administration Charts led to large increases in provision of these important tools. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🎧 New podcast alert! David Liew talks with geriatrician and dementia specialist Louise Waite about new Alzheimer therapies. Don’t miss this episode! Listen now: buff.ly/46gJB15 #AlzheimerAwareness #Dementia #Podcast

Data from the Victorian Poisons Centre shows that #paracetamol errors in the community fell during COVID‐19 lockdowns, when case numbers were low, then rose significantly as case numbers increased in 2021-22. #MedicineSafety onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jp…

It's #ResearchFest this week at Austin Health. Pharmacy department projects have been shortlisted for the Quality Improvement Award (oncology #AMS; sedative and anticholinergic #deprescribing), and the Allied Health Research Award (spinal cord injury #AMS).

New journal issue release! The August issue of #AustralianPrescriber highlights the pharmacological management of polycystic ovary syndrome, safe medication management during transitions of care, a judicious approach to investigations for inflammatory arthritis, and more. Plus,

Time for a medicines stewardship approach to transitions-of-care, to address the intractable problem of medication errors and harms following hospital discharge. Editorial with Manya Angley Deirdre Criddle Jonathan Penm, PhD, FFIP FAdPha FPS FANZCAP FHEA Shania Liu australianprescriber.tg.org.au/articles/achie…

Transitions of care from #hospital have long been associated with a #highrisk of #medicationerrors and #adverseevents. Time for a #stewardship approach? australianprescriber.tg.org.au/articles/achie… Manya Angley Rohan Elliott Shania Liu Deirdre Criddle

Congratulations Henry. We'll deserved recognition for an amazing career helping people with dementia.

Prescribing cascades may be overlooked when there are multiple prescribers involved in a patient’s care. In this case report, a cascade of diagnoses and prescriptions led to extreme polypharmacy, multiple compounding adverse effects and serious sequelae. #ADR #polypharmacy

Not surprising that a once-off #HMR pharmacist review does not prevent hospitalisation in a very old, frail cohort with high levels of high risk medicine use. Home care services need integrated clinical pharmacy services to improve #medicinesafety. bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/11/e…

Pharmacist integration into inflammatory bowel disease multidisciplinary teams - what are their roles, & what value do they add? A literature review from our IBD pharmacist patrick and MD co-authors. academic.oup.com/ibdjournal/art…

Transitions of care are associated with high risk of medication errors. In this editorial, the authors propose an interdisciplinary stewardship approach to address the intractable problem of medication errors and harms following hospital discharge. #TransitionsOfCare

It is unusual for transitions of care research to address gaps in medication supply as well as information transfer. This study did, and reported that when hospitals do not dispense discharge medicines there are often gaps in medication access. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…