Background & aim: Self-medication as a global challenge for mother and baby is a potential threat and it is common not only in developing countries but also in developed countries. Various factors affect drug use. This study aimed to determine the rate of practicing self-medication and its related factors in pregnant women. M...

frequency of medication errors and its reporting according to self- report by nurses in hospitals of khoy city shams sh[1], bagherieh f[2], feizi a[3], baghaei r[4], hashemlo l[5] received: 4 may , 2012 accepted: 19 jun , 2012  abstract:background & aims: medication errors are one of the important challenges of health care systems worldwide. it is also one of the threatening factors of patient ...

The aim of the study was to assess patterns of the use of medicines by the general population older than 0 years. The study was based on the information contained in the computerized database from the 1993 Spanish Household Health Survey. A representative sample of the population older than 0 was identified, and a survey of 26,334 persons was carried out. Of the population 45.3% had taken some ...

A high proportion of health and social care staff work with patients who have problems remembering to take medication. This article describes how assistive technology can be used to enable patients to manage their own medication despite the challenges of memory or visual impairment.

BACKGROUND The current study is part of a larger study--Self-Medication with Antibiotics and Resistance Levels in Europe (SAR project)--coordinated by the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and run in 19 European countries and Israel. OBJECTIVES To estimate self-medication with antibiotics by a population in northern Israel. METHODS We sent by post a questionnaire on antibiotic usag...