Speed Dating With Pharmacists: 50 Practical Medication Tips at End of Life (406)

Practical tips , strategies and tools for pharmacists Medication

canadianhealthcarenetwork.ca Adverse drug events and medication discrepancies continue to be a patient safety challenge for patients and healthcare professionals. Vulnerable moments, defined as points in time when a patient is at high risk for medication discrepancies, often occur at interfaces of care when a patient moves from one healthcare setting to another, such as admission and discharge ...

Dating phylogenies with sequentially sampled tips.

We develop a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm for estimating divergence times using sequentially sampled molecular sequences. This type of data is commonly collected during viral epidemics and is sometimes available from different species in ancient DNA studies. We derive the distribution of ages of nodes in the tree under a birth-death-sequential-sampling (BDSS) model and use...

Speed Dating

I n all areas of scientific inquiry, the ideas that researchers pursue are constrained by the methods available to them. thankfully, new and generative methodological paradigms are frequently born, often directly as a result of scientists’ own ingenuity. two prominent examples in psychology include thurstone’s (1928) insight that attitudes can be measured, a revelation that served as the founda...

Speed Dating Despite Jammers

We study the fundamental problem of how devices, operating over a wireless medium, can discover potential communication partners. For the devices, the spectrum is divided into m frequency channels. As multiple devices share these channels, they have to cope with collisions while they are trying to find other devices in the system. Moreover, we assume an adversarial jammer to block some of the a...

Pharmacists: the guardians of safe medication use.