While electronic prescribing has been shown to reduce medication errors and improve prescribing safety, it is vulnerable to error-prone processes. We review six intersecting areas in which changes to ...

There is no single strategy that best prevents medication prescribing errors. Rather, a combination of strategies will likely be needed. The major contributors to risk for errors in the present ...

President Donald Trump meets with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese at the White House. by Lisa Fletcher TOPICS: WASHINGTON (7News) — The D.C. Department of Health has launched an ...

Toronto, CANADA -- Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care is the first long-term care facility in Canada, and one of the first in North America, to take a major leap forward in the use of health ...

There were considerable differences in number and type of checking procedures among administration routes, professional groups, wards and ambulatory infusion units, and hospitals. During the ...

Antipsychotic and anti-anxiety prescribing in nursing home facilities can have an effect on prescribing in local and affiliated assisted living communities, a new study has found. The results suggest ...

Nursing homes have a history of providing residents with a glut of prescriptions, leading to harmful drug side effects or preventable trips to the emergency room. But a new study shows that homes that ...

To our knowledge, this study is the first to analyze whether the frequency or the significance of prescribing errors is correlated with the number of hours worked by house officers at the time of the ...