17, 2005 meeting, Director Charles Currie announced that the Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) no longer endorses the Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP). Upon hearing this news, the Government Accountability Project and numerous other watchdog groups......
As shown by previous studies, drugs that were prescribed more often accounted for approximately half of the medication discrepancies. Specifically for several classes of drugs, anticoagulants accounted for 13%, diuretics accounted for 10%, angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitors (ACEIs) accounted for 10...
10 The US Department of Transportation and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration11 reported that more than 90 medication classes were associated with motor vehicle crashes among older drivers. Medications commonly associated with driving impairment cause sedation, drowsiness, reduced motor ...
The Caching Mechanism 20 provides temporary storage of hospital information data separate from the HIS 18, the medication administration record system (MAR) 22, pharmacy information system (PhIS) 24, physician order entry (POE) 26, and/or Lab System 28. The Caching Mechanism 20 provides ...
Animal studies have shown changes in multiple physiological processes in the central nervous system (CNS) after repetitive administration of analgesics. Chronic sumatriptan exposure produces long-lasting increased susceptibility to evoked cortical spreading depression (CSD) due to lower threshold [89,90,91...
We also classified the 41 administration errors into those that could have been prevented by automation (n=15) and those that were not obviously amenable to an automated approach—judgment-related and technique-related errors (n=26). Automated approaches that would address the greatest number of ...
Reyataz is an HIV medication. It is in a category of HIV medicines called protease inhibitors. Reyataz was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use by people living with HIV in 2003. Reyataz must be combined with other HIV drugs. ...
(n=22) suggested that a single infusion of lanicemine 150 mg significantly reduced depression scores (compared with placebo) within 80 min of administration; interestingly, psychotomimetic and dissociative side effects did not differ from placebo, suggestive of a potential advantage over ...
hospital administration settings, home health care environments, and clinicians' offices. Clinicians may include, but are not limited to, a treating physician or physicians, specialists such as surgeons, radiologists, cardiologists, and oncologists, emergency medical technicians, physicians' assistants, nu...
(i.e. prescription, storage, dispensing, preparation, administration and monitoring) are more devastating to patients compared to non-high-risk medications [67]. These medicines require particular attention in the medication use process, mainly because of their potential toxicity, low therapeutic index...