OBJECTIVE To investigate the intravenous (IV) medication wastage within the inpatient pharmacy services at a teaching hospital, and to highlight the main causes for such waste and propose a policy to minimize wastage based on the study findings. METHODS For a one month period starting from September until October 2009, the returned and unused IV medications to the inpatient pharmacy in a teac...

J E Afset1,2, K W Larssen2, K Bergh1,2, A Lärkeryd3, A Sjödin3, A Johansson4, M Forsman ([email protected])3 1. Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children’s and Women’s Health, Faculty of Medicine, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway 2. Department of Medical Microbiology, St. Olavs Hospital, University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway 3. Division of CBRN Security and...

ISSN: 1526-5161 (Print) 1536-0075 (Online) Journal homepage: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/uajb20 Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals Carson Strong To cite this article: Carson Strong (2010) Why Academic Medical Centers Should Ban Drug Company Gifts to Individuals, The American Journal of Bioethics, 10:1, 13-15 To link to this article: http://dx.doi.org/10...

A crisis affecting every geographic region and every socioeconomic segment of the United States is threatening the future viability of emergency and trauma care in America. As the financial and social burden of providing trauma care has fallen on individual states, hospitals and physicians, record numbers of emergency departments and trauma centers have been forced to close. The ultimate cost o...

The number of trauma victims in Turkey is expected to increase as a consequence of the increasing vehicular traffic, potential for earthquakes, and risk of terrorist attacks. The Turkish Association for Trauma and Emergency Surgery monitors trauma cases, publishes a quarterly journal, organizes trauma courses and seminars for various health personnel nationwide. It is also extending efforts to ...

Dr. Cornell has boon for six years a medical inspector and is now Director of Medical Inspection in the Philadelphia Public Schools. In the course of this experience he has worked out many problems to a solution, and has become an authority upon methods. His book is, in the first place, a practical manual for the medical inspector, and in the second place a work of reference for the teacher who...

The new European vigilance guidelines come into force on 1 January 2008. In addition, the Directive amending the medical devices Directives, which includes some aspects of the vigilance system, was recently published. This article discusses the amendments concerning vigilance requirements, the new European vigilance guidelines and steps that manufacturers should take now to prepare for these.

The author of this article claims it is a fair description of her recent experience as an inpatient in an unidentified major public teaching hospital. The name of the hospital has been withheld at our request. The Australian Health Review has no reason to believe her account is inaccurate but readers will draw their own conclusions. The comments of the Chief Executive of a similar hospital are ...

The question of whether a Tarasoff duty may emerge from a credible threat by an examinee during an independent medical examination has not been extensively addressed in the professional literature. This article analyzes that question and provides suggestions for how to respond to a perceived duty.