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Original research

• Review of studies examining microbial contamination of vials used for preparations done with closed-system drug transfer devices (15 May, 2019)

  Annaelle Soubieux, Cynthia Tanguay, Jean-François Bussières
• Focus group study exploring the issues and the solutions to incorrect penicillin allergy-labelled patients: an antibiotic stewardship patient safety initiative (11 June, 2019) Free

  Neil Powell, Michael Wilcock, Neil Roberts, Jonathan Sandoe, Sarah Tonkin-Crine
• Adjusting the dose in paediatric care: dispersing four different aspirin tablets and taking a proportion (11 June, 2019)

  Jørgen Brustugun, Nikolai Notaker, Lasse Holtan Paetz, Ingunn Tho, Kathrin Bjerknes
• Continuing cabazitaxel beyond 10 cycles for metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer: is there a benefit? (14 June, 2019)

  Loma AL-Mansouri, Malmaruha Arasaratnam, Howard Gurney
• A cross-sectional study of psychotropic drug use in the elderly: Consuming patterns, risk factors and potentially inappropriate use (11 June, 2019)

  María Isabel Santos-Pérez, Inmaculada Fierro, M Esther Salgueiro-Vázquez, María Sáinz-Gil, Luis H Martín-Arias
• Wipe-sampling procedure optimisation for the determination of 23 antineoplastic drugs used in the hospital pharmacy (17 July, 2019)

  Nicolas Guichard, Julien Boccard, Serge Rudaz, Pascal Bonnabry, Sandrine Fleury Souverain
• Cost-effectiveness of two technology-assisted manual medication picking systems versus traditional manual picking in a hospital outpatient pharmacy (14 November, 2019)

  Marcus Eng Hwa Teo, Bih Yee Chia, Yeng Ching Lee, Pearlyn Li Ying Tay, Jane Ai Wong, Soo Boon Lee, Mun Moon Lim, McVin Hua Heng Cheen