Oct 8, 2020
The development of oedema after the introduction of some psychotropic drugs has been previously reported with a range of agents. One drug that has been implicated is the second generation antipsychotic agent, olanzapine. A recently published case report has described...
Sep 29, 2020
Using a retrospective cohort study design, British researchers have recently investigated the nature of drug treatment amongst people with dementia, specifically looking at evidence for potentially inappropriate prescribing (PIP). Data were derived primary care...
Sep 29, 2020
The OECD has recently estimated that the total cost of avoidable admissions to hospitals from Long Term Care (LTC facilities) in 2016 was in the order of $USD18, equivalent to 2.5% of all spending on hospital inpatient care, and is set to increase by about 20% in the...
Sep 29, 2020
Low-dose steroids are commonly used for the management of rheumatoid arthritis (RA), despite the fact that these agents are commonly associated with serious adverse effects including significant infections. A recently published retrospective cohort study has assessed...
Sep 29, 2020
An analysis recently published in The Annals of Internal Medicine has found that most of the 48 New Drug Applications (NDAs) for opioid analgesics approved by the FDA between 1997 and 2018 assessed new dosage forms (n = 25 [52.1%]) or new formulations (n = 9 [18.8%]);...
Sep 29, 2020
Australian researchers have recently examined the different types of adverse drug events (ADEs) that drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts are configured to prevent in hospitalized patients. Using a retrospective cross-sectional design, the investigators analysed all DDI...
