ABSTRACT The electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) is now becoming implemented in most health care practices and pharmacies the United States. This review aims to detail steps needed for EPCS adoption synthesize current literature on benefits challenges associated with its adoption. Our systematic seven published studies from 1990 2020 notes reduction errors, fraud, overprescri...

screen. Subsequently, 4,059 references were excluded for not meeting predefined criteria, and 285 were selected for full-text review. These were combined with the 4 articles identified through gray literature and hand search. After removing the references that failed tomeet the inclusion criteria, 59 unique trials were identified of which 13 reference articles were used to address the 3 questio...

We provide a systematic review and meta-analysis on the efficacy, tolerability, and safety of cannabinoids in palliative medicine. The Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), MEDLINE, PsycINFO, PubMed, Scopus, and http://clinicaltrials.gov, and a selection of cancer journals were searched up until 15th of March 2017. Of the 108 screened studies, nine studies with a total of 15...

BACKGROUND Fibromyalgia is a clinically defined chronic condition of unknown etiology characterized by chronic widespread pain that often co-exists with sleep disturbances, cognitive dysfunction and fatigue. People with fibromyalgia often report high disability levels and poor quality of life. Drug therapy, for example, with serotonin and noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors (SNRIs), focuses on re...

Background Calls for evidence-informed public health policy, with implicit promises of greater program effectiveness, have intensified recently. The methods to produce such policies are not self-evident, requiring a conciliation of values and norms between policy-makers and evidence producers. In particular, the translation of uncertainty from empirical research findings, particularly issues of...

Semantic Representations of Near-Synonyms for Automatic Lexical Choice Philip Edmonds Doctor of Philosophy Graduate Department of Computer Science University of Toronto 1999 We develop a new computational model for representing the fine-grained meanings of nearsynonyms and the differences between them. We also develop a sophisticated lexical-choice process that can decide which of several near-...

Importance Timing of introduction of allergenic foods to the infant diet may influence the risk of allergic or autoimmune disease, but the evidence for this has not been comprehensively synthesized. Objective To systematically review and meta-analyze evidence that timing of allergenic food introduction during infancy influences risk of allergic or autoimmune disease. Data Sources MEDLINE, E...

BACKGROUND Care bundles are a set of three to five evidence-informed practices performed collectively and reliably to improve the quality of care. Care bundles are used widely across healthcare settings with the aim of preventing and managing different health conditions. This is the first systematic review designed to determine the effects of care bundles on patient outcomes and the behaviour o...

INTRODUCTION An essential component of technical editors’ work is to convey to writers how their documents would benefit from revision. This task is potentially sensitive, given writers’ intellectual and emotional investment in the documents they have created. The sensitive nature of the editing process is clear in Rude’s (2001) advice to students of technical editing: “[A]void words that sugge...

Drs. Elliott and Morrison recently published a narrative review about the effectiveness of oral and subcutaneous maintenance of tocolytic agents following successful arrest of acute preterm labor [1]. The authors conclude that subcuta-neous terbutaline pump is beneficial and safe for maintenance of tocolysis based on all the available evidence. While the authors have provided an exhaustive list...