Electronic prescription management has failed to sufficiently improve physician’s knowledge of a patient’s current and previous medications. Additionally, prescription management methods have failed at encouraging patients to adhere to medications. Between medication errors resulting from incomplete medication histories and poor patient adherence to drug regimens, significant challenges remain ...

The inability to determine which schizophrenic patients do not require maintenance medication is a significant gap in current knowledge. This report describes 23 largely chronic DSM-III schizophrenic patients who, after a period of inpatient treatment, sustained good outcome without maintenance antipsychotic medication over an average of 15 years. Retrospective study of these patients revealed ...

BACKGROUND Medication errors are a common type of preventable errors in health care causing unnecessary patient harm, hospitalization, and even fatality. Improving communication between providers and between providers and patients is a key aspect of decreasing medication errors and improving patient safety. Medication management requires extensive collaboration and communication across roles an...

The treatment of Type 2 Diabetes in the health care system can undergo a transition among facilities which may lead to drug-related problems. Pharmacists have clinical knowledge and skills conduct pharmacotherapy workup enable patients achieve therapeutic goals. This study aims prove comprehensive medication management model be implemented primary evaluate effect on patient empowerment HbA1c. u...

background : significant efforts have been directed to understand medication errors in recent years. therefore, this study was conducted to determine the factors contributing to medication errors and related areas for improvement, as perceived by nurses. methods : two hundred registered nurses were asked to complete a questionnaire which asked them to identify types, stages and issues perceived...

Self-medication in dentistry is an emerging practice wherein individuals diagnose, select, and administer oral health remedies without professional guidance. This review article aims to provide a comprehensive overview of self-medication dentistry, focusing on its types, benefits, risks, influencing factors, the role dental professionals. The explores different types commonly observed including...

Hypokalaemic periodic paralysis secondary to subclinical hyperthyroidism is an uncommon clinical phenomenon characterised by lower limb hypokalaemia in the background of hyperthyroidism. In this article, we report a patient who presented with progressive muscle weakness that was refractory potassium replacement therapy. He has no diarrhoea, reduced appetite and not taking any medication can cau...

OBJECTIVE Evidence suggests that the medication lists of patients are often incomplete and could negatively affect patient outcomes. In this article, the authors propose the application of collaborative filtering methods to the medication reconciliation task. Given a current medication list for a patient, the authors employ collaborative filtering approaches to predict drugs the patient could b...

Medication Safety has been an established pharmacy specialty in Australian hospitals since the early 2000s and is now one of the ten Australian hospital accreditation standards. Although advances have occurred, medication-related patient harm has not been eradicated. Victorian undergraduate pharmacy programs include some aspects of medication safety, however clinical pharmacy experience, along ...