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Prescription Medication Overdose

2023
Abstract Data collected by the National Center for Health Statistics and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have illustrated the ongoing trend of prescription medication overdose. It is very common to encounter patients in the perioperative period who use prescription medications to manage their comorbidities.
Peter Huynh, Alaa Abd-Elsayed
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Prescription and medication records

British Journal of Nursing, 2005
All nurses are required to keep contemporaneous records which are unambiguous and legible. The NMC has reprinted the UKCC guidelines for records and record keeping (UKCC, 1998). The Department of Health has provided advice in its guidance on the implementation of independent nurse prescribing on the standards for prescription writing (DH, 2002).
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Prescription Of Medicated Feedingstuffs

Veterinary Record, 2012
This article, by Janis McDonald of the Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD), sets out advice on best practice in using medicated feedingstuffs prescriptions. It has been produced by the VMD in the light of concerns that procedures for completing medicated feedingstuffs prescriptions may not always be being followed correctly.
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Prescription of medicated feedingstuffs

Veterinary Record, 2013
FOLLOWING feedback received from stakeholders it has become apparent that there has been some confusion regarding part of the Veterinary Medicine's Directorate's (VMD) guidance on the interaction between …
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Electronic Medical Prescription

2010
Even today most medical prescriptions are typically handwritten or printed on paper and hand-delivered to pharmacists. Paper-based medical prescription is generating major concerns as the incidences of prescription errors have been increasing and causing minor to serious problems to patients, including deaths.
Sorwar, Golam, Murugesan, San
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Deregulating Mandatory Medical Prescription

American Journal of Law & Medicine, 1986
AbstractThis Article links the legal evolution of mandatory medical prescription since 1900 to the police-power's prohibition of alcohol and the opiates as well as to the self-interested monopolization of new drugs by physicians. The Article advances a theory of professionalization consistent with the evidence that mandatory prescription is not in the ...
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Adherence to Prescription Medications Among Medical Professionals

Southern Medical Journal, 2000
We evaluated adherence to medication usage by health care professionals to estimate the expected upper limit of adherence among the general population.In a self-administered survey, physicians and nurses were asked about their use of prescribed medications for acute and chronic illnesses.
R S, Corda, H B, Burke, H W, Horowitz
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Electronic medical prescription

Pharmaceuticals Policy and Law, 2017
The need to simplify both the collection and transmission of “health data”, and to more carefully control the prescriptions to patients, led to starting – since the early 2000s – projects of computerization and electronic circulation of drug prescriptions.
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The non-medical switching of prescription medications

Postgraduate Medicine, 2019
Non-medical switching of medication, whereby a patient's treatment regimen is changed for reasons other than efficacy, side effects, or adherence, is often related to drug formulary changes aimed at reducing drug costs. In the era of health care reform, while cost-cutting measures are important, there is considerable evidence that non-medical switching,
Richard, Dolinar, Christine G, Kohn, Frank, Lavernia, Elaine, Nguyen   +3 more
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Prescription Opiate Medications

Psychiatric Annals, 2006
<p>Prescription opiate medications are controlled substances under United States law because of intrinsic characteristics that render them both medically useful and dangerously harmful to patients. However, the warnings derived from the experience and laws about the potential dangers and toxicity of prescription opiate medications were lost due ...
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