BACKGROUND The impact of providing cognitive pharmacy services following hospital discharge has been studied with various results. This study is specifically focused on comprehensive medication management services delivered postdischarge in an interprofessional team environment to patients aged >65 years. OBJECTIVE To determine if delivery of comprehensive medication management services postd...

OBJECTIVE Medication documentation is a critical aspect of quality patient care. The current study examined whether electronic medical records provide medication documentation that is more complete and faster to retrieve than traditional paper records. METHOD This study involves a comparison of archived paper medical records to recent electronic medical records through chart review. A conveni...

spinal cord injury (sci) leads to loss of nervous tissue and consequently to catastrophic neurological deficits. up to now there is no definite treatment available that restores the loss of function to a degree that an independent life can be guaranteed.this justifies the cost of research into the new modalities for a treatment of scis. in current paper, recent developments and new approaches i...

OBJECTIVE To compare how nurses in two different paper-based systems perceive the impact of a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system on their medication-related activities. SETTING 13 non-surgical, adult inpatient wards in a Dutch academic hospital. METHODS Questionnaire survey of 295 nurses before and 304 nurses after the implementation of a CPOE system. These nurses worked with ...

Background & Aims of the Study: one of the most important health aspects health care systems is patient safety and medication errors can threaten this safety. The purpose of this research was evaluation of refusing to report the medication errors and effect on Patent safety in Razi teaching hospital after healthcare reform during 2014-2015. Materials and Methods: This study is cross-sectiona...

The value of Closed Loop Medication Management (CLMM) systems resides in their ability to help healthcare providers prevent medication errors (ME) and adverse drug events (ADEs) that may occur during the process of delivering prescription medicines [1-5]. This paper argues that the concept of ‘closed loop’ is being incorrectly conceptualised in a linear sense process from the pharmacist to the ...

The comparison of the patient's current medication list with the medication being ordered when admitted to Hospital, identifying omissions, duplications, dosing errors, and potential interactions, constitutes the core process of medicines reconciliation. Access to the medication the patient is taking at home could be unfeasible as this information is frequently stored in various locations and i...