Specialists warn of clinical errors in NSW pharmacist prescribing trial guidelines

The guidelines are intended to standardise the management of herpes zoster by pharmacists.

Ophthalmologists have pointed out an error in the NSW pharmacy trial prescribing guidelines — one that ends up confusing between two different manifestations of herpes zoster.

The error was pointed out in a letter published in The Medical Journal of Australia on Monday by a team from Sydney’s Prince of Wales Hospital and Community Health Services, and UNSW Sydney.