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entaNYL transdermal patches (Duragesic and other generic brands) are a mainstay in the treatment of Fchronic pain, yet the US health care community and patients alike continue to face challenges regarding the safe use of this product. Despite numerous warnings from drug manufacturers, patient safety groups, and even the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Institute for Safe Medication Pract...

BACKGROUND Research has shown that patients are most susceptible to medication-related problems (MRPs) when transitioning from hospital to home. Currently, the literature in this area focuses on interventions, which are mainly orientated around the perspective of the health-care professional and do not take into account patient perspectives and experiences. OBJECTIVE To capture the experience...

This study explored factors associated with successful development and implementation of medication error reporting (MER) systems in different healthcare contexts. A descriptive online questionnaire comprising of structured and open-ended questions was responded to by 16 medication safety experts in 16 countries. The present paper describes the rich and multidimensional qualitative data from th...

Zusammenfassung: Vorgestellt werden Ergebnisse einer empirischen Untersuchung zu den mikround makroökonomischen Auswirkungen von patentrechtlichen Regelungen im Softwarebereich. Der Fokus liegt auf den aktuellen Schutzstrategien in Unternehmen und den damit verfolgten ökonomischen Kalküle. Insbesondere wird der Frage nachgegangen, welche Vorund Nachteile mit den aktuellen rechtlichen Regelungen...

This paper presents the results of the WMT17 Metrics Shared Task. We asked participants of this task to score the outputs of the MT systems involved in the WMT17 news translation task and Neural MT training task. We collected scores of 14 metrics from 8 research groups. In addition to that, we computed scores of 7 standard metrics (BLEU, SentBLEU, NIST, WER, PER, TER and CDER) as baselines. The...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine the frequency and type of decision support alerts by location and ordering provider role during Computerized Provider Order Entry (CPOE) medication ordering. Using these data we adjusted the decision support tools to reduce the number of alerts. DESIGN Retrospective analyses were performed of dose range checks (DRC), drug-drug interaction and drug-allergy aler...