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Category Archives: Patient safety and risk
Rapid Update 2 – October 2019: Public health assessment finds a quarter of adults in England prescribed medicines associated with dependence or withdrawal
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Rapid Update 3 – August 2019: Anticholinergic medicines: observational study suggests link with dementia
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Rapid Update 1 – January 2019: Respiratory: New NICE guidance on COPD – what’s changed?
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Rapid Update 2 – December 2018: Systematic Review suggests muscle strength training plus protein supplementation as the most effective and easiest to implement intervention to delay or reverse frailty
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Rapid Update 3- July 2018: Hospital discharge summaries: failure to process requested actions in primary care are common and can cause harm
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Rapid Update 3- February 2018: Medicines optimisation: what is the incidence of drug-related deaths in hospital inpatients?
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Rapid Update 2- December 2017: Gabapentin and opioids: Observational study finds increased risk of opioid-related death when used in combination
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Rapid Update 1- August 2017: Alzheimer’s disease: increased risk of pneumonia observed in people treated with benzodiazepines
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Rapid Update 1- July 2017: Acute Kidney Injury (AKI): What are the effects of temporarily discontinuing medications to prevent AKI?
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