BACKGROUND Medication errors are common in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Various strategies to reduce errors have been described in adult and paediatric patients but there are few published data on their effect in the NICU. AIM To describe the medication errors occurring within an NICU, and assess the impact of a combined risk management/clinical pharmacist led education programme ...

Background: To prevent adverse drug events and promote patient safety, medication reconciliation is critical in all patient care settings. The purpose of this study was to identify medication discrepancies occurring in an inpatient medicine unit and to analyze the clinical and economic benefit of clinical pharmacist and physician team collaboration. Methods: A prospective cohort study in which ...

1. Apply results from clinical studies and guidelines to the management of hepatic encephalopathy. 2. Design evidence-based treatment and prevention regimens for patients with ascites or complications of ascites such as spontaneous bacterial peritonitis and hepatorenal syndrome. 3. Given recent guidelines on the management of portal hypertension, justify the need for primary and secondary proph...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the impact and cost-benefit of clinical pharmacist interventions on inappropriate use of prophylactic acid suppressant in hepatobiliary surgical patients in a Chinese tertiary hospital. METHODS A retro-prospective intervention study of patients undergoing elective operations was performed in the Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery of the Affiliated Hospital of Southwest ...

background :fieldwork education is a core part of all occupational therapy curriculums around the world to enable the students meet minimum competencies required for their professional life. student experience is a valuable source to explore the nature of fieldwork training and plan more efficient curriculums in the future. this study aimed to explore the students' experiences in the first fiel...

background: clinical education is a critical and complex component of nursing education that is influenced by many variables. one of them is stress, which may disturb students’ learning, too. stressors may differ according to the learning situation and environment, and recognizing them, seems to be essential for corrective interventions. the present work was performed to identify stressors in c...

introduction: the undergraduate curriculum of shiraz medical school underwent a major reform during the recent years. it comprised of integrated education, supplemented with an early clinical experience program. this study was carried out to find out how early experience in clinical experience affects medical students’ perception and identify strengths and limitations of the available methods a...

background & aim : dietary behavior modification has an important effect on chronic disease occurrence. this study aimed to examine the effects of an education program on nutritional knowledge, attitude, and behavior among female students studying in bojnord, iran. methods & materials : this was a clinical trial that was conducted in 2009. of all secondary schools, 2 classes were randomly selec...

1. Powell JR. Clinical pharmacist save thousand of lives: Big decrease in doserelated adverse effects. Pharmacotherapy 2004;24:422–425. 2. Zermansky AG, Alldred DP, Petty DR et al. Clinical medication review by a pharmacist of elderly people living in care homes-randomised controlled trial. Age Ageing 2006;35:586–591. 3. Crotty M, Rowett D, Spurling L et al. Does the addition of a pharmacist tr...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this report is to characterize the patient population served by the Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program and to describe program outcomes. METHODS A chart review was conducted for all patients (n=100) participating in the Grace Lamsam Pharmacy Program from January 1, 2007 to February 6, 2008. The primary outcome data collected were the medication related problems (unnecessar...