More than a decade ago, the introduction of intravenous (IV) smart pumps with drug libraries and dose error reduction systems (DERSs) provided a means for decreasing IV medication administration errors. Before IV smart pumps were available, all pump programming required the user to manually calculate the rate of infusion, then input the desired infusion rate into the pump. Because many differen...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the intravenous (IV) medication wastage within the inpatient pharmacy services at a teaching hospital, and to highlight the main causes for such waste and propose a policy to minimize wastage based on the study findings. METHODS For a one month period starting from September until October 2009, the returned and unused IV medications to the inpatient pharmacy in a teac...

background : in most iranian hospitals, the nurses in the wards prepare intravenous (iv) drugs and unfortunately pharmacists are not involved in this process. the severity of the patients in intensive care unit (icu) heightens the risk of errors. more over the frequency of using iv drugs in this unit is high, so we decided to determine the frequency and types of errors, which occur in the prepa...

Methods: Study participants (n=411) were adults, aged 18–55 years, with a DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of ADHD who had baseline scores of ≥32 on the ADHD Rating Scale–IV (ADHD-RS-IV). After a washout of previous medication in the 67 patients who reported using ADHD medication in the previous 30 days, patients were randomly assigned to 6 weeks of double-blind treatment with 1 of 3 dosages of SHP465 (25, ...

Since there is no detailed hospital based incident reporting system, this study was designed to evaluate the medication errors associated with infusion pumps in intensive care unit (ICU). The investigation was conducted in a Teaching hospital in the form of a prospective, observational study. A sample size of 43 doses administered to ICU patients was chosen to enable reliable estimate of error ...

Abstract Background: Many schizophrenic patients are engaged in self-medication drug abuse, including narcotics. It is assumed that many of these patients have a greater number of psychotic symptoms, and show noncompliance with treatment. In this study, we investigated relationship of positive and negative symptoms and opioid dependence in these patients. Methods: This was a descriptive...

medication error (me) is the most common preventable cause of adverse drug events which negatively affects patient safety. inadequate, low-quality studies plus wide estimation variations in me from developing countries including iran, decreases the reliability of me evaluations. to clarify sources, underreporting reasons and preventive measures of mes, we reviewed iran current available literat...

conclusions post-operative pain in rectal acetaminophen group was less than that in intravenous acetaminophen group, and rectal acetaminophen group demanded their first additional analgesic medication later. results data analysis indicated a significant relationship between reduction of postoperative pain and the use of intravenous or rectal acetaminophen (p = 0.0001); in group receiving iv ace...

OBJECTIVES To develop a categorical outcome measure related to clinical decisions and to perform secondary analyses to supplement the primary analyses of the NIMH Collaborative Multisite Multimodal Treatment Study of Children With Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (MTA). METHOD End-of-treatment status was summarized by averaging the parent and teacher ratings of attention-deficit/hyper...