Completing medication reconciliation minimizes the risk for preventable adverse drug events (ADEs). The elderly are at greatest risk for ADEs because of their high number of comorbidities and medications usage. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to improve medication management in a ...
Digital health technologies also offer support beyond a virtual “check-in” that can digitally handhold patients with their everyday needs, especially those managing chronic conditions or multiple medications. Digital companions keep patients continuously connected with condition management and care givers....
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Comprehensive medication management (CMM) is an approach that ensures each patient’s medications are individually assessed to determine that each is appropriate for the patient, effective for the medical condition, safe given the comorbidities and other medications being taken, and able to be taken...
Prudent perioperative management of these drugs is required to optimize surgical outcome. A balance must be struck between minimizing potential surgical complications and maintaining disease control to facilitate postoperative rehabilitation of patients with rheumatoid arthritis. 展开 ...
- 《Risk Management & Healthcare Policy》 被引量: 35发表: 2013年 The effects of a patients' own drugs scheme on the incidence and severity of medication administration errors Background — Many UK hospitals are introducing patients' own drugs (PODs) schemes, in which patients' own medication ...
Hemodialysis (HD) patients commonly receive polypharmacy leading to increased likelihood of drug related problems (DRPs) and poor quality of life. Medication Therapy Management (MTM) services discover and resolve DRPs and may specifically improve Medicat
Medication choice among home care patients may be improve... D Koehl - 《Clinics in Geriatric Medicine》 被引量: 27发表: 1991年 Examining Nurses' Decision Process for Medication Management in Home Care Article-at-a-GlanceBackground The process of medication management within home care agencies ...
Contact the pharmacy about available medication management services. Many pharmacies offer individual dose, or compliance packaging, options. This is a low-cost way to help patients better manage daily medications and it offers a way forfamily membersto double-check on doses that may have been mis...
According to statistics, the direct economic cost to older adult patients caused by improper management of polypharmacy is as high as USD 2 billion annually [10]. In this study, the average daily medication therapy cost for patients at the initial admission phase was as high as RMB 137.16/day...