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Leading Article
To
err is human, to learn divine
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Number plates for medicines — a new way of reducing
medication errors [more]
Learning from medication errors
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Comment
Broad Spectrum: Turning aspirations into realities [more]
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to the Editor
Continuing Education
Enteral feeds explained
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60K)
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Papers
Validating
tools for the monitoring of community pharmacy services
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A sociological perspective
of pharmacy:
(1) What is a drug? [more]
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Front Cover Picture
In a week when car registration plates have been in the news, this
week’s front cover picture (by Christopher Icha) illustrates a news
feature analysing a proposal that all medicines packaging should carry
a “number plate” of standardised information to help reduce
medication errors (p286). A second article (PDF file) on medication errors
looks at what health care providers must do to meet the Government’s
targets for error reduction. See also Leading
article.
Enteral feeds
This week’s continuing education article aims to explain the types
of enteral feeds available, to raise awareness of the patient groups that
might require them and to examine problems that pharmacists might encounter.
Sociology of pharmacy
In the first of a series of articles offering a sociological perspective
of pharmacy, the author shows how the definition
of a drug has possessed different meanings.
Monitoring of services
An article this week describes the development and validation of tools
with which community pharmacists can monitor the standards of their professional
services and measure the impact of their intervention on patient care.
Eye preparation guidance
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society has revised
Government guidance on the use of eye preparations in hospitals and care
homes.
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