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Near‐death of Australia's Medicines Safety Update
Author(s) -
McEwen John,
Boyd Ian W.
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
internal medicine journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.596
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1445-5994
pISSN - 1444-0903
DOI - 10.1111/imj.15413
Subject(s) - medicine , publishing , publication , patient safety , health care , administration (probate law) , health professionals , alternative medicine , medical emergency , public relations , law , pathology , political science
The Therapeutic Goods Administration has since 2013 neglected its long tradition of publishing regular bulletins and updates about medicine safety issues directed to Australian healthcare professionals. Recent publication policy is confused with information about clinically important safety issues published only in the alternative Safety Information Alerts and, unlike other comparable regulators, a failure to publish direct healthcare professional communications.