The nomenclature of drugs is becoming increasingly complex, but if writing the names of pharmacological treatments is a challenge, pronouncing those names can be even more challenging. In a discussion that was recently published in the Australian Prescriber, the issue...
Canadian pharmacy researchers have examined “quality-related events” – defined as medication errors that reach the patient (e.g., incorrect drug, dose and quantity), AND medication errors that are intercepted before dispensing (i.e., near misses)....
Little is known about the prescribing of antibiotics dental conditions amongst people presenting to the emergency departments. In a recently published study where data collection took place over a period spanning 2011 to 2015, there were an estimated 2.2 million ED...
Researchers have completed a large cohort study that included all people older than 18 years with a diagnosis of heart failure, (n=134048). Vaccination coverage of the study cohort ranged from 16% to 54% during the study period, which spanned three and a half years....
American researchers have demonstrated that during 754 389 person-years of anticoagulation treatment with apixaban, dabigatran, rivaroxaban, and warfarin, the risk of hospitalization for upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding was highest for rivaroxaban, but that the...
