EHRs and protection against medication errors?

It has been noted that Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems have been widely portrayed as a broad remedy for various patient safety problems in health care, and researchers in the USA have sought to measure the safety performance of operational EHRs in hospitals on...

Aspirin increases upper GI bleeding for older people

Research scheduled to be presented at the cancelled Digestive Disease Week conference in Chicago, USA in early May 2020 has assessed of specific aspect of safety data on on over 19,000 patients in the famous Aspree study, where just over 9,500 patients were assigned...

SGLT2 inhibitors reduce the risk of adverse renal events

The effects of sodium-glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors on renal outcomes in routine clinical practice have been investigated in a Scandinavian cohort study. 29,887 new users of SGLT2 inhibitors (such as dapagliflozin, empagliflozin and canagliflozin) were...