Material is drawn from its biweekly publication, ISMP Medication Safety Alert!. These medication errors have occurred in healthcare facilities at least once. They will happen again – perhaps ...

Objectives: To assess patients’ adherence to new medication for a chronic condition (and whether non-adherence was intentional), patients’ problems with their medication, and their further information ...

Visualisation techniques based on bibliometric data are helpful in obtaining an overview of the literature on complex research topics, and have been applied here to the topic of patient safety (PS).

If it’s challenging to lose weight despite making changes to your diet and increasing your physical activity, you may be wondering whether a prescription weight loss medication is right for you.

Primary outcome To identify higher-priority potential failure modes as defined by RPNs and planning changes in clinical practice to reduce the risk of patients harm and improve safety in the process ...

If you don't take your thyroid medication to treat your thyroid condition, you'll likely start to have an array of adverse symptoms. These include fatigue, hair loss, changes in blood pressure, heart ...

Clinics and hospitals currently defer medication abortion until ultrasound confirms a pregnancy inside the uterus. However, a large international study now indicates that treatment can be equally ...

Until recently, doctors prescribed an antidepressant medication from only a single class of drugs, one medication at a time, called monotherapy. Doctors generally start at a lower dosage and ...

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Background Surgical errors in ophthalmology can have devastating consequences. We developed an artificial intelligence ...

Medications are the mainstay of treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS). Many of them are used to block the immune system's attack on the nerves and slow or prevent progression and relapses (flare-ups) ...

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