Necessity of Medication in Disease

Medication reconciliation: a necessity in promoting a safe hospital discharge.

Medication errors are among the most common type of patient-safety error and therefore are a priority for organizational performance-improvement efforts. Medication reconciliation has been found to greatly reduce adverse drug and medication events. At one facility, a computer-generated Physician Discharge Medication Worksheet (PDMW) was developed to aid medication reconciliation. Use of this to...

the role of type-d personality, social support and self-compassion in prediction of health behaviors in coronary heart disease patients

نظر به اهمیت و تاثیر روزافزون عوامل روانی – اجتماعی در سلامت جسمی و تاثیر عوامل روان شناختی در بروز بیماریهای مختلف از جمله بیماریهای قلبی و عروقی این پژوهش با هدف کلی بررسی ارتباط تیپ شخصیتی d ، حمایت اجتماعی و خود دلسوزی در پیش بینی رفتارهای بهداشتی بیماران کرونر قلبی و تعیین تفاوت بین بیماران کرونر قلبی با و بدون جراحی و افراد سالم در این متغیرها و رفتارهای بهداشتی آنان، انجام گرفت. جامعه آ...

Preventing the Emergence of Ebola Disease in Unaffected Countries: Necessity of Preparedness

Medication adherence in cardiovascular disease.

A 66-year-old woman presents to the emergency department with crushing chest pain and ST-segment elevations on ECG. She has left ventricular systolic dysfunction (ejection fraction, 35%) after recent (6 days earlier) non–STsegment elevation myocardial infarction treated with percutaneous coronary intervention, including 2 drug-eluting stents. She is sent for emergent cardiac catheterization, is...

nonadherence to medication in inflammatory bowel disease: rate and reasons

background this study is the first study to evaluate the nonadherence rate and reasons of same patient with inflammatory bowel disease (ibd) in iran. methods during 9 months, 500 patients with ibd were enrolled in the study. patients were interviewed about their nonadherence behaviors. factor analysis was used to analyze the collected answers. results the overall rate of nonadherence was 33.3% ...