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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"Medication Safety"”.
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Improving Medication Safety by Implementing a Just Culture
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Improving Medication Safety by Reducing Miscellaneous Orders Placed via CPOE
… by The Joint Commission as a National Patient Safety Goal, medication safety is the focus of a multidisciplinary committee at a 173-bed community hospital in Northern California and the theme of this clinical nurse leader (CNL) project. “Improving Medication Safety by Reducing Miscellaneous …
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Using an Educational Module and Simulation Learning Experience to Improve Medication Safety
… identify and report near miss events during the medication administration process related to patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) usage. Despite extensive in-service training on a Medical/Surgical (Med/Surg) floor in an acute care hospital, inconsistent, inaccurate and incomplete documentation with …
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How The Five Rights Are Wrong: Development Of A Nursing Medication Safety Science Curriculum
<p>Medication errors, now thought to be four times greater than previous estimates, pose a serious threat to nurses, patients, and health care institutions. Current nursing education lacks any coherent medication safety framework other than the classic “Five Rights” construct. This project piloted …
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Medication safety in collaborative health care settings: an investigation of the impact of information exchange processes in residential aged care facilities
Medication safety is a pressing concern for residential aged care facilities (RACFs). Although failures in information exchange (IE) between multiple providers have been identified as a primary cause of medication errors, there is limited evidence about the way IE impacts on medication safety. This …
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Relationship Between Angiotensin Receptor Blockers and Cancer: A Nested Retrospective Longitudinal Cohort Study
… rely on information received via post-marketing safety surveillance, reports generated by independent investigators and other voluntary reporting systems. Unfortunately, such reports are subject to biases resulting from selective reporting standards and non-standardized practices, with a net …
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Digital health as an embedded part of nursing homes : an in-depth examination of the impact of the electronic health record
Efficient management of patient data and medication safety are crucial in nursing homes where nursing staff perform complex and often time-sensitive tasks at the same time as there is a shortage of personnel. This thesis explores the implementation and impact of Iðunn, a registration application …
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Reducing medication errors in Kuwaiti government hospitals through pharmacovigilance
Background: Reducing medication errors in Kuwaiti government hospitals through pharmacovigilance involves the improvement of medication management practices to achieve the desired outcome. Medication management practices were assessed and based upon the findings, training to enhance healthcare …
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Evaluation of the Impact of Revisiting Just Culture Within a Pharmacy Department in an Academic Medical Center
… to make deliberate assurances that quality and safety are at the center of every patient care discussion. An essential component of a safety culture is a just culture which is often defined as an environment of shared accountability that recognizes the potential for human error and where …
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Overcoming Literacy Barriers in Colorectal Cancer Screening: a Randomized Trial of a Web-based Decision Aid
… CRC screening DA or a control program about medication safety. All patients completed a baseline and post-program survey. Blinded chart review determined screening test ordering and completion rates. Results: Of the 248 patients who completed the study, 54% had limited health literacy. …
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Exploring medication errors and doctors’ and nurses’ perceptions of them in the Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU).
… introduction of numerous strategies to improve medication safety, error rates over the last 5 years have not reduced. Moreover, some errors are being repeated. This suggests that staff may not learn from their errors or individual learning is not being shared across the PICU. The aim of this …
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Improving Patient Medication Reconciliation Participation and Compliance Through Education
… the center of this world are patients and their safety. Medication knowledge and medication reconciliation compliance are factors that influence patient’s safety and their overall health outcomes. This project explores the theme of patient safety by examining the relationship between patient …
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Platinum and palladium complexes as human immunodeficiency virus latency reversal agents
… vaccine remains elusive, and existing HIV/AIDS medications do not lead to a cure. Antiretroviral therapy (ART) has been instrumental in suppressing the virus, but it cannot completely eradicate HIV due to its persistence and latency. Research is now focusing on developing latency activators, …
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Pain medication management : a quality improvement DNP project
Problem: Medication administration errors (MAEs) related to pain management remain a significant patient safety concern in hospital settings. A safety event involving opioid overmedication requiring naloxone at a community hospital prompted a root cause analysis. Findings identified inconsistent …
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Medicines Reconciliation: Roles and Process. An examination of the medicines reconciliation process and the involvement of patients and healthcare professionals across a regional healthcare economy, within the United Kingdom.
Medication safety and improving communication at care transitions are an international priority. There is vast evidence on the scale of error associated with medicines reconciliation and some evidence of successful interventions to improve reconciliation. However, there is insufficient evidence on …
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From hospital to home: a mixed methods exploration of post-discharge medicines management for older people living with long-term conditions
There are numerous threats to medication safety at care transitions, which are heightened for older people, because they live with multiple long-term conditions as well as polypharmacy, and have frequent hospital admissions. Whilst evidence of the severity and scale of these medicines-related …
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Efetividade de intervenções farmacêuticas na omissão de prescrição e desprescrição de medicamentos em pacientes hospitalizados: estudo INFAR
… older people, which make them one of the biggest medication consumers. Potentially inappropriate prescriptions for older people became a global concern, to achieve adequate pharmacotherapy it is fundamental knowing effectiveness and safety of all medications and the risk-benefit ratio favor the …
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Interprofessional Education between Medical and Pharmacy Students: A Study of What and How Pre-registration Medical and Pharmacy Students Learn With, From and About Each Other in a Classroom Based Interprofessional Environment
… in pre-registration training may improve medication safety and patient care. However, the evidence concerning IPE for these groups is lacking. This study investigates what and how pre-registration medical and pharmacy students learn in classroom based IPE and explores factors affecting …
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The role of a pharmacist in screening, communicating and reporting the risks of cardiovascular disease associated with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and the perception of the population
… gaps in public awareness, risk perception, and medication safety, particularly concerning non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), pose significant challenges to effective prevention and self-management strategies. This thesis adopts a mixed-methods approach to examine three interrelated …
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Multimodal AI for Hospital Readmission Prediction Among Older Adults
… DDIs, offering additional insights into medication safety. And third, to better process unstructured clinical text, an enhanced ClinicalBERT model, trained on MIMIC-IV discharge summaries, extracts richer representations from narratives, improving the model’s ability to capture nuanced …
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