News tagged with medication discrepancies

European food outbreak soars; mystery deepens

(AP) -- The number of people hit by a massive European outbreak of foodborne bacterial infections is a third bigger than previously known and a stunningly high number of patients suffer from a potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Patients presenting medication lists reduce the risk of error during hospital admission

A recent study conducted at Northwestern Memorial Hospital found that almost 50 percent of medication discrepancies were related to a failure to understand all of the prescription medications patients were taking at the time ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 05, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Some discrepancies exist between outcomes indicated in trial registration and later publications

Comparison of the primary outcomes of registered clinical trials with their subsequent publication appears to show some discrepancies, according to a study in the September 2 issue of JAMA.

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created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0