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    Tag: UTI

    Dr Stephanie Dawson-Smith

    Watchdog to hear accusations of patient harm linked to pharmacy UTI prescribing

    October 14, 2022

    Queensland’s health watchdog has agreed to meet with doctors over accusations that pharmacists diagnosing and treating UTIs has led to patient harm. Meanwhile, the university…

    Pharmacy board to roll out pharmacist prescribing standards

    October 10, 2022

    The Pharmacy Board of Australia says it is planning to roll out national standards for education and training that allow pharmacists to prescribe independently. Back in…

    Pharmacist UTI prescribing and the scandalous silence of the regulators

    July 19, 2022

    Dr Evan Ackermann says their failure to speak out against the dismantling of the prescriber-dispenser divide is alarming.

    Pharmacist

    Here’s the pharmacy UTI trial evidence we’ve been waiting for

    July 5, 2022

    An evaluation of the Queensland Government's pilot of pharmacists diagnosing and treating uncomplicated UTIs has been quietly released.

    Paying overstressed pharmacists to do GPs’ work is not the answer

    July 1, 2022

    Earlier this month, the Pharmacy Guild of Australia branded AMA Queensland a “cabal of non-grassroots doctors” who were trashing the reputation of pharmacists for no…

    Chris Owen

    Pharmacy guild accuses AMA of making up claims that women were harmed by pharmacist UTI trial

    June 15, 2022

    The guild's state president says AMA Queensland's complete lack of evidence and foe outrage reek of internal politics and desperation.

    Queensland Minister for Health Yvette D'Ath. Source: AAP.

    Did the pharmacist UTI prescribing trial ever secure ethics approval?

    June 10, 2022

    AusDoc speaks to Queensland University of Technology about its involvement in a trial where doctors claim patients have been harmed

    Daily antiseptic as good as antibiotics for recurrent UTI in women

    March 16, 2022

    Small UK study shows prophylactic methenamine hippurate is non-inferior to usual antibiotics in reducing incidence.

    UTI leads to spinal abscess in rare case

    August 26, 2021

    The complication should act as a reminder to order an MRI when patients with a current or recent UTI complain of severe back pain, say US authors.…

    Shorter-course antibiotics effective for UTI in older men

    July 28, 2021

    Study in JAMA finds no significant difference in symptom resolution between a week and two-week course.

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