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MEDICATION ERRORS

Redesigning clinical pharmacy services for surgical patients

Friday 1st June 2007
In a three-month pilot, a ward-focused clinical pharmacy team improved the quality of the clinical pharmacy service by eliminating “missing” medicines charts and streamlining the discharge process

Teaching medication safety to undergraduates

Friday 1st June 2007
Medicines governance pharmacists in Northern Ireland have developed medication safety training packages to fit into undergraduate medical, nursing and pharmacy courses

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CYTOTOXIC HANDLING

Titanium chloride smoke as drug vapour simulant – a critique

Saturday 1st December 2007
Cytotoxic drug reconstitution devices are designed to minimise the exposure of healthcare personnel to drug aerosol and vapour. The term “closed system” has been used (and abused)to describe some of these devices.

Combination rituximab in FL urged

Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Rituximab plus MCP "should become standard"

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NUTRITION

Nutritional support in children with cancer

Friday 1st June 2007
Correct nutrition allows more effective delivery of chemotherapy and radiotherapy by limiting toxicity and enhancing efficacy. This article describes the special requirements for this group of patients

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ONCOLOGY

Breast cancer drug trial axed

Wednesday 23rd May 2007
Organon halts five-year tibolone study

Oral vs IV topotecan: little difference

Tuesday 22nd May 2007
Study probes second-line therapy in small-cell lung cancer

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LATEST ISSUES

Clinical Pharmacy Europe - Number 7 - Summer 2007

Hospital Pharmacy Europe Issue 38 May/June 2008

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MY WEEK

Frank Joergensen searches for the elusive factor in successful ward-based pharmacy services

PRACTICE

The strange case of the Bulgarian nurses

Wednesday 1st August 2007
Looking at the bald facts of the five Bulgarian nurses and Palestinian-born doctor sentenced to death by a court in Libya for infecting more than 400 Libyan children with HIV, you would say it could not happen

Doctors concerned over weaponised drugs

Thursday 24th May 2007
Agents are never "nonlethal", says report

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Titanium chloride smoke as drug vapour simulant – a critique

Saturday 1st December 2007
Cytotoxic drug reconstitution devices are designed to minimise the exposure of healthcare personnel to drug aerosol and vapour. The term “closed system” has been used (and abused)to describe some of these devices.

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