Medication Storage Appropriateness in US Households
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Taking stock of medication wastage: Unused medications in US households.
BACKGROUND Despite the potential deleterious impact on patient safety, environmental safety and health care expenditures, the extent of unused prescription medications in US households and reasons for nonuse remain unknown. OBJECTIVE To estimate the extent, type and cost of unused medications and the reasons for their nonuse among US households. METHODS A cross-sectional, observational two-...
متن کاملReconsidering medication appropriateness for patients late in life.
P ROVIDING GUIDELINEadherent care for many medical conditions increasingly means the addition of more medications to reach disease-specific targets. When might it be best to withhold or discontinue medications that are otherwise appropriate on the basis of guidelines? Receiving facsimiles from the pharmacy serving a local nursing home encouraging us to prescribe statins for residents there symb...
متن کاملAssessing medication packaging and labelling appropriateness in Sri Lanka
BACKGROUND There is substantial evidence of poor dispensing practices with inadequate packaging and labelling of medicines, and limited advice on their usage in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). We examined the labelling and packaging of medicines identified during a survey of 1322 households in six regions of Sri Lanka between 2010 and 2013 conducted using the World Health Organization ...
متن کاملCarbon storage in US wetlands
Wetland soils contain some of the highest stores of soil carbon in the biosphere. However, there is little understanding of the quantity and distribution of carbon stored in our remaining wetlands or of the potential effects of human disturbance on these stocks. Here we use field data from the 2011 National Wetland Condition Assessment to provide unbiased estimates of soil carbon stocks for wet...
متن کاملAppropriateness of administration of nasogastric medication and preliminary intervention
A utilization study was performed in a 2200-bed tertiary care teaching hospital. Data mining was performed on all nasogastric medication prescriptions for patients hospitalized in 2011. Nurses were interviewed by questionnaire. A PDCA (Plan-Do-Check-Act) cycle was used for continuous quality improvement. The proportion of patients with nasogastric tubes (NGT) was 3.2%. A large number of medical...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: INNOVATIONS in pharmacy
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2155-0417
DOI: 10.24926/iip.v12i2.3822