In 2011, a decision was made to develop a national list of high-risk medications based on the medication incidents reported to the Danish Patient Safety Database. The high-risk medications are defined as medications that have been involved in medication errors and have caused harm to patients. ...
15 December 2016 Published: 23 January 2017 Potentially high-risk medication categories and unplanned hospitalizations: a case–time– control study Chih-Wan Lin1,Yu-Wen Wen2, Liang-Kung Chen3,4 & Fei-Yuan Hsiao1,5,6 Empirical data of medication-related hospitalization are very limited...
An intravenous medication safety system: preventing high-risk medication errors at the point of care. Improving medication safety at the point of care--particularly for high-risk drugs--is a major concern of nursing administrators. The medication errors mos... I Hatcher,M Sullivan,J Hutchinson,....
Conclusions A survey of AAAAI membership found that the useof "high risk" medication concomitantly with AIT is common and is associated with an overall low frequency of major and minor problems.doi:10.1016/j.jaci.2013.12.783Rank, Matthew A....
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We used MGH materials, which positively affected the wound healing process, initially through autolytic debridement, resolution of clinical infection, and anti-inflammatory medication; and, in a second phase, promoting granulation tissue format...
He used pain medication during the day (morphine plasters 15 mg; if necessary, additionally gabapentine 900 mg) but still suffered from high levels of pain. Before the cancer, Mr. A was a physically and socially active man (e.g., long-distance walks, swimming, volunteer work). He felt ...
For years, the question of whether to take medication to lower high blood pressure had been partly answered by a tool that calculated someone's 10-year risk of having a heart attack or stroke. But new equations, which take into account both 10-year and 30-year predicted risk for cardiovasc...
This research aimed to identify high-risk pharmaceutically active compounds (PhACs) by analyzing occurrence (O), persistence (P), bioaccumulation (B), and toxicity (T) of 62 drugs which are widely used in Iran. A comprehensive approach was taken in risk assessment of the selected PhACs and in...
that the care process leads to improved outcomes, and recognise that there may be a number of intervening steps before an improved outcome is realised (for example, the steps of adding in antihypertensive medication, further monitoring blood tests as required, and further blood pressure review) [...