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Knowledge among Drug Dispensers and Antimalarial Drug Prescribing Practices in Public Health Facilities in Dar es Salaam. [PDF]

, 2013
Irrational prescribing and dispensing of antimalarials has been identified as a contributing factor in the emergence of malaria parasites resistant to existing antimalarial drugs.
Kamuhabwa, Appolinary Ar, Silumbe, Richard   +1 more
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Outpatient prescription drug interactions at a city-affiliated healthcare center in Vietnam [PDF]

Journal of Pharmacy & Pharmacognosy Research
Context: Adverse drug interactions increase the risk of hospitalization, treatment costs, unfavorable treatment outcomes, and prolonged hospital stays.
Minh Cuong Nguyen, Dao Phuong Nguyen, Quang Loc Duyen Vo, Rebecca Susan Dewey, Minh Trung Nguyen, Quoc Quan Ly, Tu Nguyet Tran   +6 more
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Repeat prescribing of medications: a system-centred risk management model for primary care organisations [PDF]

, 2017
Rationale, aims and objectives: Reducing preventable harm from repeat medication prescriptions is a patient safety priority worldwide. In the United Kingdom, repeat prescriptions items issued has doubled in the last 20 years from 5.8 to 13.3 items ...
Bartlett, Stephen, Bowie, Paul, Dinwoodie, Mark, Man, Shu Ling, Price, Julie, Taylor, Kate   +5 more
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Use of unlicensed and off-label drugs in neonates in a Brazilian university hospital

Brazilian Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences, 2018
This study was designed to investigate the use of off-label and unlicensed drugs in a Neonatal Care Unit (NCU) and to compare the frequency of use of off-label drugs according to the drug regulatory agencies in Brazil (Agência Nacional de Vigilância ...
Adriana Cristina de Souza Gonçalves, Adriano Max Moreira Reis, Ana Carolina Gusmão Marçal, Maria Cândida Ferrarez Bouzada   +3 more
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Safety of medication use in primary care [PDF]

, 2015
© 2014 Royal Pharmaceutical Society.BACKGROUND: Medication errors are one of the leading causes of harmin health care. Review and analysis of errors have often emphasized their preventable nature and potential for reoccurrence.
Abramson, Abramson, Adubofour, Ahmad, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Alldred, Alldred, Aronson, Aronson, Ashcroft, Avery, Avery, Avery, Barber, Bayoumi, Berner, Bernstein, Beso, Boockvar, Boockvar, Booij, Braund, Bregnhoj, Britt, Brown, Buurma, Campbell, Carruthers, Chen, Chua, Coleman, Dallenbach, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean Franklin, Dean Franklin, Department of Health, Department of Health, Department of Health, Devine, Dhabali, Eslami, Field, Fischer, Flynn, Gagne, Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, Garfield, Ghaleb, Ginzburg, Glassman, Green, Gurwitz, Hazlet, Howard, Hume, Humphries, Hämmerlein, Janice O. Olaniyan, Kaushal, Kaushal, Kennedy, Khoja, Knudsen, Knudsen, Kohn, Kuo, Lafata, Lasser, Leape, Lemer, Lewis, Lisby, Lopez-Picazo, Lynskey, Maisoon Ghaleb, Martínez Sánchez, Marwaha, Miller, Moniz, Nanji, Nemeth, Norden-Hagg, Palen, Paul Robinson, Pirmohamed, Raebel, Reason, Royal, Runciman, Sarvadikar, Sayers, Shah, Singh, Soraya Dhillon, Sorensen, Stefanovic, Sweidan, Szczepura, Tam, Tamblyn, Teinilä, Thomsen, Varkey, Vincent, Warholak, Wetzels, Wild, Wong, World Health Organisation   +113 more
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Drug-drug interactions in prescriptions for hospitalized elderly with Acute Coronary Syndrome

Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem, 2017
The objective was to determine the rate of potential drug-drug interactions in prescriptions for elderly diagnosed with Acute Coronary Syndrome in a teaching hospital.
Tiago Aparecido Maschio de Lima, Moacir Fernandes de Godoy   +1 more
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Switching patients from other inhaled corticosteroid devices to the Easyhaler(®) : historical, matched-cohort study of real-life asthma patients [PDF]

, 2014
Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Gould, Shuna, Hutton, Catherine, King, Christine, Price, David, Thomas, Vicky, von Ziegenweidt, Julie   +5 more
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Prescription drug monitoring programs [PDF]

The Nurse Practitioner, 2015
To help combat prescription drug misuse, most states have implemented Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs (PDMPs)-electronic databases that collect and track prescription data and flag suspected diversion activities. Equipped with expanding prescriptive authority, NPs are now poised to become vital change agents in expanding the potential ...
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Systematic review of the safety of medication use in inpatient, outpatient and primary care settings in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries [PDF]

, 2018
Background Errors in medication use are a patient safety concern globally, with different regions reporting differing error rates, causes of errors and proposed solutions.
Abu Yassin, Abushaiqa, Ackroyd-Stolarz, Al Anany, Al Anazi, Al Hamid, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Khaja, Al Odhayani, Al Rahbi, Al Shahaibi, Al-Arifi, Al-Arifi, Al-Dhawailie, Al-Ghamdi, Al-Hussein, Al-Jazairi, Al-Jeraisy, Al-Khani, Al-Olah, Al-Omar, Al-Rashdi, Al-Rowibah, Al-Tajir, Alakhali, Alanazi, Albarrak, Alghamdy, Aljadhey, Aljadhey, Aljadhey, Aljamal, Allan, Almazrou, Alshaikh, Alsulaimi, Altebenaui, American Geriatrics Society Beers Criteria Update Expert Panel, Arabi, Aseeri, ASHP, Bates, Bryony Dean Franklin, Cohen, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dean, Dibbi, Elnour, Ferner, Fick, Flynn, Flynn, Gandhi, Ghaleb, Ghaleb, Hemida, Hepler, Hisham Saad Aljadhey, Hooper, Insley, Irshaid, Jamilah Alsaidan, Jane Portlock, Jha, Jha, Kaushal, Kheir, Khoja, Landis, Lisby, Mahmoud, McLeod, McPhillips, Mendonca, Miller, Mitwally, Morimoto, Morimoto, Nada Atef Shebl, Naranjo, Nebeker, Neville, Rancourt, Rashed, Rashed, Rehmani, Sadat-Ali, Shaughnessy, Sonallah, WHO, World Bank   +95 more
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Analysis of of medication and potential interactions in prescriptions containing antimicrobials distributed in a community pharmacy in the city of Ijuí /RS

Revista de Epidemiologia e Controle de Infecção, 2012
Rationale and Objectives: Bacterial resistance is a worldwide concern and the inappropriate prescription of antimicrobials is one of the factors that can infl uence its rates.
Bruna Rodrigues Weber, Vanessa Cristina Scherer, Karla Renata Oliveira, Christiane Fátima Colet   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source