EXCLI Journal : Experimental and Clinical Sciences, 2022 While there are many known health benefits to maintained physical activity levels in late adulthood, there have been very few studies that have considered relationships between morbidity profile and physical activity in the eighth decade of life.
Gregorio Bevilacqua +6 more
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Facilitators and Barriers to Safe Medication Administration to Hospital Inpatients: A Mixed Methods Study of Nurses' Medication Administration Processes and Systems (the MAPS Study). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 Research has documented the problem of medication administration errors and their causes. However, little is known about how nurses administer medications safely or how existing systems facilitate or hinder medication administration; this represents a ...
Monsey McLeod +2 more
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Quality improvement of the medication system in a long-term care facility: a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study [PDF]
Geriatrics, Gerontology and AgingObjective: To describe the implementation of a quality improvement intervention for the medication system of a large not-for-profit long-term care facility (LTCF) and evaluate its effectiveness.
Ana Ludmila Santos Plauska +4 more
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DRUG ADMINISTRATION: A SYSTEMIC VIEW FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF MEDICATION ERROR PREVENTIVE ACTIONS [PDF]
Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem, 2004 The drug administration is a very frequent activity of a hospital routine in general, as well as of itsnursing team. However studies have shown the need to implement strategies to prevent or to mitigate errors foundin this pratice.
Silvia Helena De Bortoli Cassiani +1 more
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PharmacoepidemiologyWe described insulin glargine (originator) and insulin glargine-yfgn (biosimilar) treatment patterns, assessed effectiveness and safety outcomes, and identified reasons for switching back to the originator product from the biosimilar.
Samantha Walczuk +11 more
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MEDICATION SYSTEM ANALYSIS OF AN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL IN THE STATE OF GOIÁS [PDF]
Revista Eletrônica de Enfermagem, 2004 The medication errors can bring serious consequences to patients, professionals andhealthcare institutions, they have multiple causes, amongst them failures related to theprofessionals and related to the medication system.
Ana Elisa Bauer de Camargo Silva
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Evaluation of Medication Error Incident Reports at a Tertiary Care Hospital
Pharmacy, 2020 Background: Medications errors (MEs) have been a major concern of healthcare systems worldwide. Voluntary-based incident reporting is the mainstay system to detect such events in many institutions.
Mohammed Aseeri +4 more
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Diabetes medication recommendation system using patient similarity analytics
Scientific Reports, 2022 Type-2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a medical condition in which oral medications avail to patients to curb their hyperglycaemia after failed dietary therapy. However, individual responses to the prescribed pharmacotherapy may differ due to their clinical
Wei Ying Tan +5 more
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Quality Management of Inpatient Medication Administration in Hong Kong Public Hospitals
Asia Pacific Journal of Health Management, 2020 Medicine maladministration can result in various side effects to patients, including serious complications, extended medical care, incapacity and death. In Hong Kong public hospitals, the pattern of medication error consists of prescribing error usually ...
Kiu Yan Kwong, Ben Y.F Fong
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AI empowered context-aware smart system for medication adherence [PDF]
International Journal of Crowd Science, 2017 Purpose – Poor medication adherence leads to high hospital admission rate and heavy amount of health-care cost. To cope with this problem, various electronic pillboxes have been proposed to improve the medication adherence rate.
Qiong Wu +3 more
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