OBJECTIVES Many medication errors can occur when ordering and dispensing medicine in hospitals. The clinical decision support system (CDSS) is widely used in an effort to reduce medication errors. This study focused on the evaluation of user satisfaction with the CDSS for medication at a university hospital. Specifically, this study aimed to identify the factors influencing user satisfaction an...

introduction: drug utilization evaluation (due) studies are designed to assess drug usage appropriateness. dues have traditionally focused on drugs with high price tags, complicated dosage schedules, narrow therapeutic indices and regular side effects. the primary goal of the present study is to evaluate imipenem usage in bone marrow transplantation (bmt) wards. methods: the study was a prospec...

BACKGROUND Drug manufacturer rebates paid to health plans and pharmacy benefit management companies have come under increased public scrutiny. Over the past several years, numerous articles have appeared in the literature encouraging a shift to a more quality-based decision-making process for health plan drug formularies. OBJECTIVE To propose a new basis for formulary placement decisions that...

INTRODUCTION Drug overdose is the most frequent cause of death among people who misuse illegal drugs. People who inject these drugs are 14-17 times more likely to die than their non-drug using peers. Various strategies to reduce drug-related deaths have failed to meet target reductions. Research into community-based interventions for preventing drug overdose deaths is promising. This review see...

A range of innovative computer-based interventions for psychiatric disorders have been developed and are promising for drug use disorders due to reduced cost and greater availability compared to traditional treatment. Electronic searches were conducted from 1966 to November 19, 2009, using MEDLINE, Psychlit, and EMBASE. Four hundred sixty-eight nonduplicate records were identified. Two reviewer...

OBJECTIVE Computer-tailored physical activity interventions are becoming increasingly popular. Recent reviews have comprehensively synthesised published research on computer-tailored interventions delivered via interactive technology (e.g. web-based programs) but there is a paucity of synthesis for interventions delivered via traditional print-based media in the physical activity domain (i.e. t...

Students who are solving open-ended problems would benefit from formative assessment , i.e., from receiving helpful feedback and from having an instructor who is informed about their level of performance. Open-ended problems challenge existing assessment techniques. For example, such problems may have reasonable alternative solutions, or conflicting objectives. Analyses of open-ended problems a...

background: more than 80% of patients with hematologic  malignancies will develop fever during more than one chemotherapy cycle combined with neutropenia. we aim to evaluate empiric antibiotic strategies in febrile neutropenic (fn) cancer patients. methods: this is a concurrent study performed in the “shahid ghazi” teaching hospital, hematology-oncology center of tabriz, iran during the period ...