OBJECTIVES To explore the perceived acceptability, advantages and disadvantages of electronic multicompartment medication devices. DESIGN Qualitative study using 8 focus groups and 10 individual semistructured interviews. Recordings were transcribed and analysed thematically. Strategies were employed to ensure the findings were credible and trustworthy. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING Community ph...

PURPOSE Few studies have examined prescribers' interactions with medication alerts at the point of prescribing. We conducted an in situ, human factors investigation of outpatient prescribing to uncover factors that influence the prescriber-alert interaction and identify strategies to improve alert design. METHODS Field observations and interviews were conducted with outpatient prescribers at ...

Complementary security systems are widely deployed in networks to protect digital assets. Alert correlation is essential to understanding the security threats and taking appropriate actions. This paper proposes a novel correlation approach based on triggering events and common resources. One of the key concepts in our approach is triggering events, which are the (low-level) events that trigger ...

Changes in blood parameters may occur during the use of psychiatric drugs. In such cases, general condition patient and are closely monitored treatment is discontinued or medication changed. The purpose this case report was to be alert possibility side effects as neutropenia due antipsychotic drugs draw attention management these patients

The premise of automated alert correlation is to accept that false alerts from a low level intrusion detection system are inevitable and use attack models to explain the output in an understandable way. Several algorithms exist for this purpose which use attack graphs to model the ways in which attacks can be combined. These algorithms can be classified in to two broad categories namely scenari...

Failure to accurately measure and record a patient’s weight can contribute to serious, even fatal, dose errors, especially with high-alert medications such as anticoagulants and chemotherapeutic agents and in certain populations (e.g., children, elderly people).1 ISMP Canada recently received 3 reports of medication dosing incidents attributed to use of an incorrect patient weight. These incide...

Anaphylaxis is an acute, life-threatening, systemic allergic reaction associated with various triggers, clinical presentations, and levels of severity.1 Epinephrine is the only life-saving drug used to treat a person experiencing anaphylaxis. Recent epidemiological studies indicate that the prevalence of anaphylaxis is increasing.2,3 The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) reported...

Widespread electronic health record (EHR) implementation creates new challenges in the diabetes care of complex and diverse populations, including safe medication prescribing for patients with limited health literacy and limited English proficiency. This review highlights how the EHR electronic prescribing transformation has affected diabetes care for vulnerable patients and offers recommendati...

Most studies evaluating the effect of computerised alerts embedded in electronic medication management systems (eMMS) on prescribing behavior demonstrate positive and often substantial effects. But many studies also report that doctors override computerised alerts, sometimes up to 95% of the time. Alert fatigue, due to excessive numbers of alerts being presented, is the primary reason for alert...