Journal reading
Medication management on sick days
Patients may be susceptible to adverse drug events during acute illness due to comorbidities or medicine use.
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Cost: free
Acute illness should prompt careful monitoring or dose adjustment in patients prescribed certain medicines.
Tom N Lea-Henry, Jonathan Baird-Gunning, Elizabeth Petzel, Darren M Roberts Aust Prescr 2017;40:168-73
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This activity has been designed to take around 1 hour to complete - this is based on reading the article from an issue of Australian Prescriber and completing a quiz. You will be provided with immediate feedback on your answers and a certificate of completion will be available for you to download for self-reporting purposes.