My bipolar 1 diagnosis explained my symptoms, but didn’t give me relief. Forget the painful social stigma — I was stigmatizing myself. When people who take psychiatric medications are burdened with guilt and shame from stigmatizing themselves, this is proof of an obvious problem in our wor...
I’m looking forward to dropping off bottles of unused medication through a take-back initiative near me. I’d never want to risk my family’s safety, but I don’t want to damage the environment or local water supply by sending unused medications down the drain or to a landfill. Let’s...
It would also be useful to take a closer look at the near-misses involving high-alert medications so that the identified safety risks could be addressed before they cause harm to patients. In further studies, more evidence on the effectiveness of different safeguards in the paediatric MMU ...
Take any prescription medications (Nicotine interacts with some medications, such asaspirin, some medications for the heart, and female hormones to decrease their levels in the blood.) Have a skin disorder, such asdermatitis, which may increase the likelihood of skin reactions by the skin to the...
(MDT) is a tool for identifying medication discrepancies and guiding resolutions particularly during transition between sites of care [33]; whereas the Comprehensive Medication Review (CMR) [69] could be used to evaluate ADRs (e.g., allergies), contraindications, treatment duplication, drug-drug ...
Well-designed prescription medication information (PMI), defined as materials which communicate the essential information needed for a patient to safely and accurately self-administer a medication at or near the time of prescribing, is important for patient education. A previous review identifying best ...
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eMAR: electronic medication administration record; FDA: Food and Drug Administration; HIPAA: Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act; LTE: long-term evolution; NFC: near-field communication; PIN: personal identification number. Regulatory Approval Regulatory approval (Table 6) refers to any ...
a time and motion study Ari N Meguerditchian1,2,3*, Stanimira Krotneva1, Kristen Reidel1, Allen Huang4 and Robyn Tamblyn1,5,6 Abstract Background: Medication reconciliation at admission, transfer and discharge has been designated as a required hospital practice to reduce adverse drug events...
The UK National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) recommends optimising medication use to control chronic disease before conception and throughout pregnancy for many (though not all) conditions where it is considered, on balance, safe and effective to take it [20]. However, many pregnant wo...