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White Matter Hyperintensity Burden and Short‐Interval Change Associated With Sleep Apnoea in the UK Biobank

open access: yesAnnals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background and Purpose White matter hyperintensities (WMH) are a core neuroimaging marker of cerebral small vessel disease (CSVD). Sleep apnoea (SA) is a recognized vascular risk factor, but its associations with regional WMH burden, short‐interval WMH change and cognitive performance in population‐based cohorts remain incompletely defined. We
Peng Cheng   +4 more
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A medication error

Insight - the Journal of the American Society of Ophthalmic Registered Nurses, 1996
A patient had inadvertently mistaken her son's diflorasone diacetate ointment for gentamicin sulfate ophthalmic ointment and applied it to her eye in error. Although no serious consequences resulted from the instillation of the topical corticosteroid, this incident provides another example of mistaken medication tubes.
C A, Servodidio, D H, Abramson
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Antiretroviral Medication Errors in a National Medication Error Database

AIDS Patient Care and STDs, 2005
Antiretroviral medications have reduced the morbidity and mortality associated with HIV. In contrast to these benefits, medication errors involving antiretrovirals represent opportunities for causing harm. We analyzed 400 medication errors that involved at least one single or combined HIV antiretroviral product that had been reported to a national ...
Jennifer, Gray   +2 more
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Medical error: a discussion of the medical construction of error and suggestions for reforms of medical education to decrease error

Medical Education, 2001
Introduction There is a growing public perception that serious medical error is commonplace and largely tolerated by the medical profession. The Government and medical establishment’s response to this perceived epidemic of error has included tighter controls over practising doctors and individual stick‐and ...
H, Lester, J Q, Tritter
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Medication Errors in Neonates

Clinics in Perinatology, 2008
Prevention of harm from medication errors has become a national priority. Medication errors in the neonatal intensive care unit are common, and most can be avoided. This article reviews the prevalence and types of medication errors affecting the care of the neonate and summarizes approaches that have been used to reduce these errors. Safety initiatives
Theodora A, Stavroudis   +2 more
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