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Category Archives: Review of medicines
Rapid Update 3- July 2017: Inappropriate prescribing in renal impairment: its prevalence, consequences and the impact of interventions to improve prescribing
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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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Medication review: study highlights potential missed opportunities to modify use of fracture-associated drugs following a fragility fracture (Sep-16)
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Safer Prescribing: A Trial of Education, Informatics, and Financial Incentives (Apr-16)
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Medication-related burden and patients’ experience with medicine: A review of qualitative studies (May-16)
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Variations in Prescribing Safety in UK General Practices – Room for Improvement (Dec-15)
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NPC Archive Item: Preventing fatalities from medication loading doses
NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 22 December 2010 Introduction In November 2010, the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA) issued a Rapid Response Report (RRR)1 with supporting information2 on ‘preventing fatalities from medication loading […]
NPC Archive Item: Evaluation of the Scale, Causes and Costs of Waste Medicines
NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 20 December 2010 Introduction In November 2010 the final report of an independent study commissioned by the Department of Health was published; looking into the scale, causes and costs […]
NPC Archive Item: Sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressants associated with an increased risk of falling in older people
NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 4 January 2010 A meta-analysis has found that, in people older than 60 years, benzodiazepines, other sedatives and hypnotics, and antidepressants are associated with an increased risk of falling […]