Editorials

Hypnosedatives and the Elderly—Are We Doing Enough to Reduce Risk and Improve Outcomes?
Michael Woodward, 5

National Inpatient Medication Chart Implementation
Helen Leach, 6

Professional Code of Ethics
Betty Chaar, 7

Planning the Future
Jo-anne E Brien, 10

Research

Pharmacoeconomics: a Reliable Tool for Decisions on New Medicines?
Kate Chesney, Noora Barazanchi, Ruth Billy, Jessica Koo, Nancy Rabih, Jamila Slaimankhel, June M Tordoff, 12 (members only)  

Unnecessary Medicines Stored in Homes of Patients at Risk of Medication Misadventure
Tam Vuong, Jennifer L Marriott, 16 (members only) 

Risk Analysis of Errors in Prescribing, Dispensing and Administering Medications within a District Hospital
John Parke, 21 (members only) 

Stability Implications of Repackaging Paracetamol Tablets into Dose Administration Aids
Alison Haywood, Martina Mangan, Beverley Glass, 25 (members only) 

Are Patients on Long-Term Corticosteroids Receiving Bone Loss Therapy?
Serena Rofail, Michael A Barras, 29 (members only) 

Victorian Hospital Pharmacy Technician Workforce Survey
Karen M O’Leary, Andrew Harding, Joanne Rocca, 32 (members only) 

Possible Role for Clinical Pharmacists in Identifying Pharmacogenomic Interventions
Alana C Toy, Barbara A Anderson, Ross A McKinnon, Andrew L Gilbert, 35 (members only) 

Survey of Clopidogrel Use in a Teaching Hospital
Paul Armenores, Stephanie L Wiltshire, Anne L Tonkin, Sepehr Shakib, 40 (members only) 

Pharmacy Practice

Australian and New Zealand Annual Scientific Meeting on Intensive Care
Lisa Ho, 44 (members only) 

Practice Standards

SHPA Standards of Practice for Pharmacy Investigational Drugs Services
SHPA Committee of Specialty Practice in Investigational Drugs, 46 (members only) 

Medication Safety

Medication Safety Series
Edited by Penny Thornton, 54

Geriatric Therapeutics

Problems with Medication Use in the Elderly: An Australian Perspective
Rohan A Elliott, 58

DrugScan

Literature summaries of the latest developments in pharmacy practice and therapeutics
Edited by Neil Keen, 67 (members only) 

Other Sections

Reviewers for 2005, 24
Letters to the Editor,  76

Rosemary Burke
Christine Y Lu
Dr Rabindranath Das
Subish Palaian et al.
Jim Siderov
Leanne Stafford
Rohan A Elliott
Gina B McLachlan et al.
Pranaya Mishra et al. 

Book Review, 82
SHPA Research and Development Grants Program, 28, 34, 38
Advertisers’ Index, 67