News tagged with prescription errors
Health advice from pharmacists saves hundreds of millions of euros
Hundreds of millions of euros are being saved each year for national healthcare systems by patients consulting community pharmacists rather than going straight to their doctors, says a survey to be presented today at the ...
Aug 31, 2010 |
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Panel recommends standardizing prescription container labeling
To promote the establishment of universal standards for prescription medication labels—and to address the widespread problem of patient misinterpretation of medication instructions—an advisory panel formed by the U.S. Pharmacopeial ...
May 10, 2010 |
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Study: E-prescribing cuts medication errors by seven-fold
(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell medical school study finds that when doctors use electronic systems to write prescriptions, they make seven times fewer errors than when they scrawl by hand.
Mar 31, 2010 |
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Physicians click their way to better prescriptions
Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic ...
Mar 10, 2010 |
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Best go digital in a pandemic
The use of a digital checklist for patients being administered emergency drugs during a pandemic or following a biological terrorist attack reduces the fatigue factor, according to a report in the International Journal of ...
Dec 22, 2009 |
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