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Mind the gap! Risk factors for poor continuity of care of TB patients discharged from a hospital in the Western Cape, South Africa.

PLoS ONE, 2018
BackgroundTB patients discharged from hospitals in South Africa experience poor continuity of care, failing to continue TB treatment at other levels of care.
Lilian Dudley, Fidele Mukinda, Robin Dyers, Frederick Marais, Dagmar Sissolak   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sirolimus for Extracranial Arteriovenous Malformations: A Scoping Review of the Evidence in Syndromic and Non‐Syndromic Cases

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Arteriovenous malformations (AVMs) are rare, high‐flow, vascular anomalies that can occur either sporadically or as part of a genetic syndrome. AVMs can progress with serious morbidity and even mortality if left unchecked. Sirolimus is an mTOR inhibitor that is effective in low‐flow vascular malformations; however, its role in AVMs is unclear.
Will Swansson, Ingrid Winship, Gary Hammerschlag, Laura Scardamaglia   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring Stem Cell Transplanted Patients’ Perspectives on Medication Self-Management and Electronic Monitoring Devices Measuring Medication Adherence: A Qualitative Sub-Study of the Swiss SMILe Implementation Science Project

Patient Preference and Adherence, 2022
Janette Ribaut,1,2 Sabina De Geest,1,3 Lynn Leppla,1,4 Sabine Gerull,2,5 Alexandra Teynor,6 Sabine Valenta1,2 On behalf of the SMILe study team1Institute of Nursing Science, Department Public Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Basel ...
Ribaut J, De Geest S, Leppla L, Gerull S, Teynor A, Valenta S   +5 more
doaj  

Patient safety in Europe: medication errors and hospital-acquired infections [PDF]

, 2008
The Report was commissioned by the European Federation of Nurses Associations (EFN) in November 2007 in order to support its policy statements on Patient Safety (June 2004).
Burke, J., Smith, L.N., Sveinsdóttir, H., Willman, A.   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Medical errors : Healthcare professionals’ perspective at a tertiary hospital in Kuwait [PDF]

, 2019
Medical errors are of economic importance and can contribute to serious adverse events for patients. Medical errors refer to preventable events resulting from healthcare interactions, whether these events harm the patient or not.
Ahmed, Zamzam, Al-Hamid, Abdullah M., Jones, Alan M., Saada, Mohammad   +3 more
core   +4 more sources

Evaluating the Utility of Paired Tumor and Germline Targeted DNA Sequencing for Pediatric Oncology Patients: A Single Institution Report

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective To evaluate the diagnostic yield and utility of universal paired tumor–normal multigene panel sequencing in newly diagnosed pediatric solid and central nervous system (CNS) tumor patients and to compare the detection of germline pathogenic/likely pathogenic variants (PV/LPVs) against established clinical referral criteria for cancer ...
Natalie Waligorski, Rebecca Ronsley, Shannon M. Stasi, Jeffrey Stevens, Erin R. Rudzinski, Christina M. Lockwood, Sarah E. S. Leary, Bonnie L. Cole, Michelle A. Ting, Vera Paulson   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Interoperable Digital Medication Records on Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources: Development and Technical Validation of a Minimal Core Dataset

JMIR Medical Informatics
BackgroundMedication errors represent a widespread, hazardous, and costly challenge in health care settings. The lack of interoperable medication data within and across hospitals not only creates an administrative burden through ...
Eduardo Salgado-Baez, Raphael Heidepriem, Renate Delucchi Danhier, Eugenia Rinaldi, Vishnu Ravi, Akira-Sebastian Poncette, Iris Dahlhaus, Daniel Fürstenau, Felix Balzer, Sylvia Thun, Julian Sass   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Secondary Use of Data to Support Medication Safety in the Hospital Setting: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Pharmacy, 2021
Objectives: To conduct a systematic review and narrative synthesis of interventions based on secondary use of data (SUD) from electronic prescribing (EP) and electronic hospital pharmacy (EHP) systems and their effectiveness in secondary care, and to ...
Navila Talib Chaudhry, Bryony Dean Franklin, Salmaan Mohammed, Jonathan Benn   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Annotated Bibliography: Understanding Ambulatory Care Practices in the Context of Patient Safety and Quality Improvement. [PDF]

, 2016
The ambulatory care setting is an increasingly important component of the patient safety conversation. Inpatient safety is the primary focus of the vast majority of safety research and interventions, but the ambulatory setting is actually where most ...
Mehdi, Harshal, Montano, Maria F., Nash, David B.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

MEDICATION ERRORS AND DRUG-DISPENSING SYSTEMS IN A HOSPITAL PHARMACY [PDF]

Clinics, 2005
Pharmacies permeate and interconnect various actions developed in different sectors within the complex process of the use of drugs in a hospital. Dispensing failures mean that a breach has occurred in one of the last safety links in the use of drugs.
Anacleto, Tânia Azevedo, Perini, Edson, Rosa, Mário Borges, César, Cibele Comini   +3 more
openaire   +4 more sources