Tropical diseases are diseases that are unique to tropical and subtropical regions affecting nearly everyone in the “bottom billion” of the world’s poorest people. They have a terrible impact on health involving child growth and development, harm pregnant women, cause disability and disfigurement and often cause long-term debilitating illnesses. The conventional mode of medical prescription by ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, nature and predictors of prescribing errors (PEs) in three mental health hospitals. SETTING Inpatient units in three National Health Service (NHS) mental health hospitals in the North West of England. PARTICIPANTS Trained clinical pharmacists prospectively recorded the number of PEs in newly written or omitted prescription items screened during their r...

Objectives: The objective of this study was to assess the prescription pattern by Medical practitioners and to analyze the types of medication errors observed in public sector Hospitals. Methods: Trainee Pharmacists during internship in my supervision were assigned to examine the prescriptions for drug prescription patterns as well as the same prescriptions and patients were examined for medica...

The study protocol was approved by the institutional review board and was in full compliance with HIPAA guidelines. Informed consent was obtained from all patients. The purpose of this study was to prospectively compare intra- and intersubject variability of manual versus automatic magnetic resonance (MR) imaging section prescription. In two examinations, T2-weighted series were acquired with b...