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Association of Temporolimbic Volumes with Treatment Response to Antipsychotic Medication for Delusion in Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease

ALPHA PSYCHIATRY, 2021
Objective: This study investigated the association between gray matter volume and the treatment response to antipsychotic medication in patients with Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
H. Jeong, H. Suh, Young-Min Lee, Hye Kyung Park, H. Kim, Kyongjune Pak, Kyung-Un Choi, Y. Chung   +7 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Severe and fatal medication errors in hospitals: findings from the Norwegian Incident Reporting System [PDF]

European Journal of Hospital Pharmacy, 2020
Even with global efforts to prevent medication errors, they still occur and cause patient harm. Little systematic research has been done in Norway to address this issue.To describe the frequency, stage and types of medication errors in Norwegian hospitals, with emphasis on the most severe and fatal medication errors.Medication errors reported in 2016 ...
Alma Mulac, Katja Taxis, Ellen Hagesaether, Anne Gerd Granas   +3 more
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Nurses’ perceptions of medication administration safety in public hospitals in the Gauteng Province: A mixed method study

International Journal of Africa Nursing Sciences, 2022
Background: Limited data on factors perceived to impact on medication administration errors and possible solutions to such errors in low- and middle-income settings like South Africa is available. Methods: A mixed-methods research design was used.
Alwiena J. Blignaut, Siedine K. Coetzee, Hester C. Klopper, Suria M. Ellis   +3 more
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MEDICATION ADMINISTRATION – NURSING WORKLOAD IN CLINICAL INPATIENT UNITS

Cogitare Enfermagem, 2018
Objectives: To verify the number and types of drugs prescribed and administered by nursing technicians in inpatient units and discuss its implications for nursing workload and patient safety. Method: exploratory cross-sectional
Angélica Kreling, Ana Maria Müller de Magalhães   +1 more
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Medication Safety: Experiential Learning for Pharmacy Students and Staff in a Hospital Setting

Pharmacy, 2016
Medication Safety has been an established pharmacy specialty in Australian hospitals since the early 2000s and is now one of the ten Australian hospital accreditation standards.
Linda V. Graudins, Michael J. Dooley
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Telephone based Interventions for Psychological Problems in Hospital Isolated Patients with COVID-19

Clinical Psychopharmacology and Neuroscience, 2020
Objective The COVID-19 is overwhelming health care systems globally. Hospital isolation may generate considerable psychological stress. However, there has been scarce evidence on psychological interventions for these patients due to maintain staff safety.
Ju-Wan Kim, R. Stewart, Seung-Ji Kang, Sook-In Jung, Sung-Wan Kim, Jae-Min Kim   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Strategies to reduce medication errors with reference to older adults [PDF]

, 2006
Background  In Australia, around 59% of the general population uses prescription medication with this number increasing to about 86% in those aged 65 and over and 83% of the population over 85 using two or more medications simultaneously. A recent report
Adams C, Aufseeser Weiss MR, Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care., Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW)., Australian Institute of Health and Welfare., Ayuthya S, Bates DW, Bayne T, Bolton P, Boyle CM, Brent Hodgkinson, Briggs B, Brown HN, Brown SJ, Burton ME, Casner PR, Cerne F, Hawkey CJ, Heinemann D, Hurley SF, Khan KS, Kim Nichols, Kruse H, Larrabee JH, Leape LL, Lengacher CA, Ludwig Beymer P, McNally KM, Mungall DR, Mutter M, Nelson R, NHMRC., Overhage JM, Papastrat K, Pape TM, Ray MD, Rhonda Nay, Roark DC, Roughead EE, Schaubhut RM, Shah NR, Shojania KG, Spencer DC, Strohecker S, Susan Koch, Westwood M, White RH   +46 more
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Out‐of‐hospital ketamine: review of a growing trend in patient care

Journal of the American College of Emergency Physicians Open, 2020
Ketamine is a unique medication with a long history of use in the emergency department. Out‐of‐hospital indications for ketamine have been explored and are currently expanding in some systems.
Bryan B. Kitch
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Antidiabetic and Other Therapies Used in Subjects with Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease in a Hospital-Based Clinic Population in Greece

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2021
(1) Background: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is the main cause of chronic kidney disease (CKD). In Greece, in a population from hospital-based diabetes clinics (n = 1759), the overall prevalence of diabetic chronic kidney disease (DCKD) was 45 ...
I. Migdalis, N. Papanas, I. Ioannidis, A. Sotiropoulos, A. Raptis, G. Dimitriadis, On Behalf Of The Hellenic Diabetic Nephropathy Stu   +6 more
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Dynamic Healthcare Embeddings for Improving Patient Care [PDF]

International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining, 2022
As hospitals move towards automating and integrating their computing systems, more fine-grained hospital operations data are becoming available. These data include hospital architectural drawings, logs of interactions between patients and healthcare ...
Hankyu Jang, Sulyun Lee, D. M. H. Hasan, P. Polgreen, Sriram V. Pemmaraju, Bijaya Adhikari Department of Computer Science, U. Iowa, Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Informatics, Department of Preventive Medicine   +8 more
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