Fukushima’s doses tallied

Pharmacist's review and outcomes: Treatment-enhancing contributions tallied, evaluated, and documented (PROTECTED-UK).

PURPOSE The purpose was to describe clinical pharmacist interventions across a range of critical care units (CCUs) throughout the United Kingdom, to identify CCU medication error rate and prescription optimization, and to identify the type and impact of each intervention in the prevention of harm and improvement of patient therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective observational study was u...

Estimation of Doses and Integrated Doses

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Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: are 3 doses equal to 4 doses?

After the introduction of routine infant immunization with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV-7), the United States has witnessed a 74% decline in the number of children ,5 years of age diagnosed with invasive pneumococcal disease (IPD) and a 30% decline among all age groups. Likewise, rates of pneumoniaand otitis media-related medical visits among children, hospitalizations for pneum...

Methadone Induction Doses

Purpose: To review the literature on methadone deaths and propose evidencebased dosing guidelines. Methods: A literature search was conducted on overdose deaths during the induction phase. Data on methadone deaths from the Ontario coroner’s office, as well as prescribing guidelines from different countries and jurisdictions, were reviewed. The information was collectively considered and, using ...

Paludrine: Changes in the Doses