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The goal of this program is to improve the appropriate use of perioperative antibiotics in patients allergic to penicillin.

The goal of this program is to improve identify ways anesthesia providers can care for the patient with a history of opioid abuse and addiction.

The goal of this program is to improve correctly determine the weight to use when titrating drugs and ventilation in the morbidly obese.

The goal of this program is to improve the management of opioid addiction, including how to implement strategies to reduce harm from prescription opioids.

The goal of this program is to improve screening for substance use, including risk stratification strategies in the perioperative setting.

The goal of this program is to improve the management of buprenorphine addiction by maximising current care of overdose patients in the emergency department and exploring other treatment options for opioid addiction.

The goal of this program is to improve opioid prescribing practices that comply with updates to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for prescribing opioids, and to provide appropriate follow-up and tapering of therapy for patients taking opioids on a long-term basis.

The goal of this program is to improve opioid stewardship in urology by citing statistics of opioid addiction after urologic procedures and using alpha-blockers and antispasmodic agents in treatment of pain after urologic procedures.

The goal of this program is to improve determination of optimal dosing in oncology drugs.

This program aims to improve the management of the opioid crisis, and includes identifying factors that contribute to the misuse, optimising opioid dosing, and counselling patients.

This program analyzes the risks and benefits associated with medical cannabis so that clinicians can prescribe appropriate forms and doses.

This program is to improve emergency management at ambulatory surgical centres, and includes recognising the symptoms of oculocardiac reflex and medications to treat local aanesthetic systemic toxicity.

The goal of this program is to improve the safety of benzodiazepine (BZD) use and discontinuation.

This program aims to improve the use of opioid treatment, including strategies of pain management with the appropriate use of opioids.

This program is to improve management of medication in breastfeeding mothers, including the pharmacokinetics of drugs to treatment recommendations made for breastfeeding mothers.

This program aims to improve use of drugs that mimic the sympathetic nervous system in clinical practice.

This program aims to improve implementation of evidence-based opioid-sparing techniques, and includes the advantages of multimodal pain therapy.

This program aims to improve prophylaxis for surgical site infections, including patients with reported penicillin allergy.

This program aims to improve the perioperative treatment of patients who take drugs for anticoagulation.

The Australian Prescriber Podcast provides a regular dive into some of the many great articles that Australian Prescriber publishes every two months. In each episode, our host will chat with one of the authors from a recent issue of Australian Prescriber.

FDA Drug Safety Podcasts, produced by FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, provide emerging safety information about drugs in conjunction with the release of Drug Safety Communications.

Calculate by QxMD is a next-generation clinical calculator and decision support tool, freely available to the medical community. It contains over 200 unique calculators and decision support tools.

The following app has been designed for doctors to help them manage patients on the anticoagulant dabigatran.

MDCalc clinical decision support is created exclusively by board-certified physicians for use by physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and medical students. The simple yet sleek app provides access to 550+ easy-to-use clinical decision tools including risk scores, algorithms, equations, formulas, classifications, dosing calculators, and more.