BACKGROUND Medication is the most common health-care intervention, and the errors arising out of its usage are potentially an avoidable cause of iatrogenic injuries. There are reports of medication errors from neonatal emergency setups. AIMS To study the medication errors of ordering, dispensing and administering in neonates admitted for emergency care and to compare the errors occurring in t...

The purpose of this longitudinal study (N = 2,745) was to determine whether adolescents' recent medical use of anxiolytic or sleep medication was associated with increased incidence of using someone else's prescription for these classes of medication (nonmedical use). Data were collected from adolescents attending 5 Detroit area secondary schools between December and April in 3 consecutive acad...

INTRODUCTION Prescription medication overdose is the fastest growing drug-related problem in the USA. The growing nature of this problem necessitates the implementation of improved monitoring strategies for investigating the prevalence and patterns of abuse of specific medications. OBJECTIVES Our primary aims were to assess the possibility of utilizing social media as a resource for automatic...

BACKGROUND Medication adherence has an important influence on health outcomes in patients with chronic diseases. However, few studies have been performed in Japan to determine factors related to medication non-adherence. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify prescription factors related to medication non-adherence by investigating patient characteristics, all prescriptions, and pres...

OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that there is little concordance in perceptions of medication-related communication between patients and providers, with providers estimating greater frequency of such discussions than patients; and to determine whether discordance is less apparent among patients who received e-prescriptions. STUDY DESIGN Data are from a convenience sample of 96 providers pra...

OBJECTIVE To assess the extent to which caregivers and their child's physician agree about the prescribed asthma medication regimen and evaluate factors associated with medication concordance. METHODS A cross-sectional, descriptive survey was administered to 318 caregivers of inner-city children with asthma, aged 5 to 12 years, and their caregiver-identified primary care physician at elementa...

BACKGROUND Effective hypertension management often necessitates patients' adherence to the blood pressure (BP)-lowering medication regimen they are prescribed. Patients' adherence to that regimen can be affected by prescription- and payment-related factors that are typically controlled by prescribers, filling pharmacies, pharmacy benefit managers, and/or patients' health insurance plans. This s...

Medicaid's drug expenditures have grown at double-digit inflation rates since 2000. These prescription drug costs are important contributors to increasing health care costs for disabled persons. In spite of this knowledge, little has been reported about specific patterns of medication use among disabled enrollees. We analyzed Kansas Medicaid data to describe trends in medication use patterns ac...