BACKGROUND Smoking may have a beneficial effect on either schizophrenic symptoms or antipsychotic side-effects, but studies are hampered by the lack of control of confounding factors. AIMS To explore the self-medication hypothesis in a large sample of stable out-patients with schizophrenia. METHOD Symptoms, assessed with the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), and number of hospit...

medication errors are one of the important factors that increase fatal injuries to the patients and burden significant economic costs to the health care. an appropriate medical history could reduce errors related to omission of the previous drugs at the time of hospitalization. the aim of this study, as first one in iran, was evaluating the discrepancies between medication histories obtained by...

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 ...

The objective of the study was to evaluate effect ACE, MID, DEX (IM) and (IV) with butorphanol on quality induction, induction dose propofol incidence apnoea during anaesthesia in client-owned dogs. Animals were randomly divided into four groups. After pre-medication atropine sulphate, animals administered ACE @ 0.05 mg/kg b.wt IV group A, MID 0.5 B, 15 μg/kg IM C D along 0.2 b. wt. I/V. All in...

Motor Cortex Stimulation (MCS) is less efficacious than Deep Brain Stimulation (DBS) in Parkinson's disease. However, it might be proposed to patients excluded from DBS or unresponsive to DBS. Ten patients with advanced PD underwent unilateral MCS contralaterally to the worst clinical side. A plate electrode was positioned over the motor cortex in the epidural space through single burr hole aft...

This study examined the impact of medication management compared to a psycho-educational program on parent and teacher ratings of children with combined type ADHD. The study lasted 14 weeks and included 50 children. 17 children took medication, 17 received psycho-educational intervention, and 16 children were assigned to the control group. The measures used were the IOWA Conners Scale, the Scho...

Medication administration and laboratory processing/results reporting are examples of complex systems in healthcare that are known to be error prone. At Froedtert Hospital in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, errors with IV medication drips and laboratory processing and results reporting were well documented. The purpose of this paper is to describe our initial experience utilizing the Six Sigma methodolog...

OBJECTIVE To determine the US national prevalence of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and whether prevalence, recognition, and treatment vary by socioeconomic group. DESIGN Cross-sectional survey. SETTING Nationally representative sample of the US population from 2001 to 2004. PARTICIPANTS Eight- to 15-year-old children (N = 3082) in the National Health and Nutrition Examin...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to describe patient experience with intravenous (IV) biologics for ankylosing spondylitis, Crohn's disease, psoriatic arthritis, psoriasis, rheumatoid arthritis, or ulcerative colitis. METHODS Semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted in 405 patients with these autoimmune diseases who were receiving an IV biologic to treat their disease. R...

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