OBJECTIVE Interventions improving adherence to antipsychotic medication are needed. The present study examined the effects on medication adherence of 2 years of integrated treatment for patients with schizophrenia. METHOD Adherence to medication was examined in a randomized controlled trial of 2 years of integrated treatment versus standard treatment. The 50 included patients were consecutive...

Chronic Daily Headache (CDH) and Medication overuse headaches (MOH) are important public health problems. CDH is defined as a headache occurring on 15 days or more per month over three month duration with a worldwide prevalence of 4%. MOH is a daily or near daily headache over 15 days a month that results from overuse of migraine abortive medications and is one of the most common chronic headac...

A record of current medications as well as prior medication history is useful information to an individual. MyMedicationList is a prototype application developed at the National Library of Medicine that helps users manage their medication lists and make the records readily available when needed. This personal medication list can be printed out and serve as a reminder to the individual for takin...

Purpose: This paper describes the implementation of wireless “intelligent” pump intravenous (IV) infusion technology in a not-for-profit academic, multicampus hospital system in the United States. Methods: The process of implementing a novel infusion system in a multicampus health care institution (main campus plus three satellite campuses) is described. Details are provided regarding the timel...

background about one third of unwanted reported medication consequences are due to medication errors, resulting in one-fifth of hospital injuries. objectives the aim of this study was determined formal and informal medication errors of nurses and the level of importance of factors in refusal to report medication errors among nurses. patients and methods the cross-sectional study was done on the...

conclusions levothyroxine absorption testing over 2 hours may offer a more rapid alternative to the commonly used longer protocols to rule out malabsorption. scheduling a levothyroxine absorption test may induce some patients to start adhering to levothyroxine therapy. patients and methods serum levels of thyroid stimulating hormone (tsh), ft4, and free triiodothyronine (ft3) were drawn at 0, 6...

Background Methotrexate (MTX) is the cornerstone in pharmacological treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) patients. However, medication adherence to MTX not ideal, which might lead suboptimal outcomes. Consequently instruments assess non-adherence are warranted detect and intervene on non-adherence. To date there no consensus best method determine MTX. Objectives The aim this study was correla...

BACKGROUND Remifentanil is an effective drug for protecting against adverse haemodynamic responses to tracheal intubation. We compared the haemodynamic responses during anaesthesia induction between continuous intravenous (IV) infusion and two bolus injections of remifentanil. METHODS This prospective, randomised, open-label, single-centre study included patients with American Society of Anes...

Lamotrigine is a broad-spectrum anti-epileptic known to alleviate and prevent depression in bipolar disorder. 1–3 Its therapeutic mechanism remains unclear but at least in healthy controls it may increase brain activity in temporal and ventral prefrontal cortical regions. 4 These regions have also been implicated in the pathophysiology of bipolar disorder. 5–7 They are also part of a distribute...

PURPOSE To document that with proper patient and procedure selection, children undergoing general inhalational anesthesia for ophthalmologic exams (with or without photos, ultrasound, laser treatment, peri-ocular injection of chemotherapy, suture removal, and/or replacement of ocular prosthesis) can be safely anesthetized without the use of an intravenous (IV) line. Children are rarely anesthet...