A recently published American study has addressed one aspect of the opioid crisis, assessing whether opioid prescribing for patients in emergency departments (EDs) was altered when electronic medical record (EMR) default settings were changed. The study was a quality...
Researchers in the United Kingdom used a population based matched cohort study to investigate the association between penicillin allergy and development of meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and Clostridium difficile. The subjects of the the study were...
A recent projection from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggested that drug overdose deaths should decrease to approximately 68 000 in 2018, from 71 000 deaths in 2017, the first reported projected decline since 1990 (thought to be largely...
A South Australian root cause analysis (RCA) has been performed to address the issue of fall-related hospitalisations in residential aged care services, with the aim to develop strategies to prevent falls and avoid hospitalisation if they occur. Conducted in six South...
Background The Drug Burden Index (DBI) is used as a measure of exposure to medications that are potentially hazardous to older people by virtue of the intrinsic pharmacological characteristics of these drugs. The Life and Living in Advanced Age: a Cohort Study in New...
