Decreasing alteplase utilization in outpatient infusion: Enhancing safety and efficiency. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not include a ...

Objective Geriatric patients often face issues related to polypharmacy and adverse drug events. Re-evaluating prescribed medications and considering deprescribing is critical. Medication discrepancies ...

Jody L. Green, PhD, explains how regulatory decisions shape medication safety amid uptake of OTC drugs. Green also highlights ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Are you practicing safe medication use? Hedva Barenholtz Levy wants older adults to take a look at the prescriptions and supplements they use.

A multidisciplinary team was assembled to perform an FMEA of the i.v. medication administration process incorporating pump technology and to report its findings to the hospital performance-improvement ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...

The médiEval French tool was adapted into the MAEva tool for the African context through a three-stage process: content review by a multidisciplinary group, content ...