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Could virtual reality become an essential tool for healthcare education?

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According to the World Health Organization, the world will need more than 40 million new doctors, nurses, frontline healthcare workers, and various other healthcare professionals by 2030. This equates to approximately doubling the current medical workforce. VR for real world education.

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Polypharmacy and ageing

Hospital Pharmacy Europe

The results of this randomised study showed that 62% of patients in the intervention group initiated a conversation with the physician or pharmacist and 27% (intervention) vs 5% (control) discontinued benzodiazepines. Managing polypharmacy is complex and time-consuming, he said. In this case the BCTs were embedded in the interventions.