This issue brief presents the findings of a national survey whose purpose was to describe the prevalence of evidence-based safe medication practices, including the use of voluntary medication error reporting, in the nation’s smallest hospitals. The survey included questions related to all phases of the medication use process— prescribing, documenting, dispensing by a pharmacist (medication acqu...

Medication reconciliation (MR) is a process that seeks to assure that the medications a patient is supposed to take are the same as what they are actually taking. We have developed a method in which medication information (consisting of both coded data and narrative text) is extracted from twelve sources from two clinical information systems and assembled into a chronological sequence of medica...

objective: we aimed to describe psychiatrists' attributions on non-compliance related issues resulting in re-hospitalizations of psychiatric patients. method: in a cross sectional study, we included 500 randomly selected psychiatric readmitted patients and registered their demographic data (including age, sex, job, marital status, and educational level), and psychiatric clinical data including ...

background: nowadays, self-medication of therapeutic agents is of global concern particularly in developing and underdeveloped countries. some studies conducted in iran showed that the frequency of self-medication was significant. objective: this research was conducted to estimate the prevalence of arbitrary use of antibiotics in shiraz community with special interest in its determinant factors...

introduction: drug use in pediatric patients is a unique dilemma in the management and monitoring of disease. this study aimed at assessing medication prescribing in a pediatric ward of an  ethiopian hospital. materials and methods: a retrospective cross-sectional study was done by reviewing the medical records of 249 patients among those admitted in the period between 11th of september 2007 an...

Medication administration is an increasingly complex process, influenced by the number of medications on the market, the number of medications prescribed for each patient, new medical technology and numerous administration policies and procedures. Adverse events initiated by medication error are a crucial area to improve patient safety. This project looked at the complexity of the medication ad...

Objectives: This study explores nurses’ use of bar code medication administration (BCMA) technology from a human factors viewpoint. The BCMA technology consists of a medication network server and handheld devices that connect to medication administration record data through wireless radiofrequency link. Methods: A total of 62 observations of medication administration were conducted in 1 academi...