Background: Transitions of care are high-risk situations for the manifestation of medication discrepancies and, therefore, present threats for potential patient harm. Medication discrepancies can occur at any transition within the healthcare system....
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Medication errors are more prevalent in settings with acutely ill patients and heavy workloads, such as in an emergency department (ED). A pragmatic, controlled study compared partnered pharmacist medication charting (PPMC) (pharmacist-documented bes...
Background/Objectives: Medication discrepancies at hospital discharge are common and may contribute to adverse drug events and avoidable healthcare use. Patients with mental health conditions may be at increased risk because of greater clinical compl...
Medication adherence is important for the appropriate drug-based treatment in patients with chronic diseases, especially those with cardiovascular diseases (CVDs). The purpose of the present study was to evaluate medication adherence among patients w...
Background: Documentation of admission medication is frequently insufficient, particularly in the emergency department (ED). This study analyses discrepancies between the admission medication by ED physicians and pharmaceutical medication reconciliat...
Medicines reconciliation is a way to identify and act on discrepancies in patients’ medical histories and it is found to play a key role in patient safety. This review focuses on discrepancies and medical errors that occurred at point of discharge fr...
Medication errors have a significant impact on patient outcomes, increase healthcare costs, and are a common cause of preventable morbidity. This single-site, observational, diagnostic accuracy study aimed to quantify medication discrepancies in tran...
Background: Medication conciliation allows finding discrepancies and medication errors in healthcare transitions, but there are few studies performed after hospital discharge, in the context of primary health care. Therefore, the main aim of this res...
Objectives: This study aimed to assess the incidence, nature, and clinical relevance of medication discrepancies identified during the perioperative period in polymedicated surgical patients, and to examine factors associated with the occurrence of r...
Complete medication reconciliation during hospital admission is the rationale for further treatment decisions. A consecutive, controlled intervention study was conducted to assess discrepancies in medication reconciliation performed by nurses of the...
Objectives: To determine the numbers of medication discrepancies and medication-related problems (MRPs) identified and resolved when providing a transitions of care comprehensive medication review (CMR) after hospital discharge within a community pha...
Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate the impact of medication reconciliation by pharmacists at both admission and discharge in hospitalized patients with different kidney diseases. Methods: A prospective study was performed in adu...
Preventable adverse drug events occur frequently at transitions in care and are a problem for many patients following hospital discharge. Many of these problems can be attributed to poor medication reconciliation. The purpose of this study was to ass...
Discrepancies in medication orders at transitions of care have been shown to affect patient outcomes in a negative way. The Joint Commission recognizes the importance of medication reconciliation through their National Patient Safety Goals, with an e...
Discrepancies between the medicines consumed by patients and those documented in the medical record can affect medication safety. We aimed to characterize medication discrepancies and medication regimen complexity over time in a cohort of outpatients...
Medication reconciliation is crucial to prevent medication errors. In Denmark, primary and secondary care physicians can prescribe medication in the same electronic prescribing system known as the Shared Medication Record (SMR). However, the SMR is n...
The medication in an electronic prescribing system (EPS) does not always match the patient’s actual medication. This prospective study analyzes the discrepancies (any inconsistency) between medication prescribed using an EPS and the medication...
Background/Objectives: This study investigated how doctor visit(s), body image discrepancy, and perceived health status are associated with receiving a medical weight problem diagnosis. Methods: The sample included 458 Hispanic adults (366 women, 92...
Background and Objective: Accurate medication allergy documentation is essential for patient safety. This study evaluated discrepancies and documentation quality between medication allergy records in the primary care information system (AP-Madrid) an...
Background/objectives: In some cases of concomitant use of direct oral anticoagulants (DOAC) and certain anticancer medications, pharmacokinetic interactions are expected; however, clinical data is scarce. This report reviews the recommendations on t...
Although coronary CT angiography (CCTA) is widely utilized for diagnosing coronary artery disease (CAD), automated CCTA image segmentation is frequently hindered by sparse annotations, pseudo-label noise, and under-delineated fine branches. To mitiga...
Distribution-shift alarms do not establish classifier harm. We evaluated the detectability, frozen-head relevance, and performance deterioration of two public DenseNet-121 chest-radiography classifiers under 30 controlled image conditions. Signals co...
Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are the leading causes of death worldwide. CVDs have become the dominant cause of death and have been a significant health challenge since the second half of the 20th century in the Polish population. The aim of our HDM...
Background: Medication non-adherence remains a major challenge among patients with heart failure (HF) and is associated with adverse clinical outcomes, including increased hospitalization and mortality. Prescription discrepancies may further contribu...
Medication discrepancies at hospital admission are common and may lead to adverse outcomes. Medication reconciliation is a critical process for minimizing medication discrepancies and medication errors at the time of hospital admission. This study ai...
Pharmacist-led medication reviews have been shown to improve medication management, reducing the adverse effects of polypharmacy among older adults. This paper quantitatively examines the medications, medication discrepancies and drug therapy problem...
Medication reconciliation (MR), which is widely implemented worldwide, aims to improve patient safety to reduce the medication errors during care transition. Despite its widespread use, MR has not yet been implemented in the Republic of Korea, and it...
Background/Objectives: Medication reconciliation is an essential strategy to improve patient safety, especially in polymedicated and chronic patients undergoing surgery. This study describes the implementation of an electronic medication reconciliati...
(1) Background: The study aimed to analyze the effectiveness of clinical pharmacist services on drug-related problems (DRPs) and patient outcomes in inpatients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). (2) Methods: In a randomized controlled trial, the part...
Background: Double reads in blinded independent central reviews (BICRs) are recommended to control the quality of trials but they are prone to discordances. We analyzed inter-reader discordances in a pool of lung cancer trials using RECIST 1.1. Metho...
Deep learning, with continuous development, has achieved relatively good results in the field of left atrial segmentation, and numerous semi-supervised methods in this field have been implemented based on consistency regularization to obtain high-per...
Premortem clinical diagnoses and postmortem autopsy findings do not match historically. These clinicopathological discrepancies are expected to be higher during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic due to increased pressure on healthcare....
Recent evidence suggests that a cytology–histology correlation (CHC) with discrepancy detection can both evaluate errors and improve the sensitivity and specificity of the cytologic method. We aimed to analyze the errors in cytologic–hist...
For the majority of Belgian hospitals, a pharmacist-led full medication review process is not standard care and, therefore, challenging to introduce. With this study, we aimed to evaluate the successes and barriers of the implementation of a pharmaci...
Background. Rational design of phage cocktails typically relies on the lytic spectrum. However, susceptibility criteria vary widely among studies, ranging from qualitative lysis in spot tests to quantitative endpoints based on serial-dilution titrati...
Three-dimensional medical image segmentation is critical for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Medical images typically exhibit heterogeneous characteristics of low inter-slice resolution and high in-plane resolution, leading 3D CNNs to lose...
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Previous research suggests that children and adolescents with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) and lymphoblastic lymphoma (LBL) often have difficulty adhering to complex treatment regimens during the maintenance phase of therapy. Measurement of tre...
Background/Objectives: There seems to be a global reduction in the number of clinical post-mortems requested and performed worldwide, suggesting a decreasing need for post-mortem examinations. Despite advances in medical technology, autopsies remain...
Body Surface Area (BSA) and Total Body Surface Area (TBSA) are important indicators used in different domains of medicine, playing a crucial role in oncology, toxicology, and even transplantology or cardiology. Their main (although not sole) use in m...
Background/Objectives: Polypharmacy may increase the risk of medication discrepancies, drug–drug interactions, potentially inappropriate prescribing, nonadherence, adverse drug events, and avoidable healthcare use. Telemedicine may improve acce...
Background. Discrepancies between histology and serology results for Helicobacter pylori detection could be caused by a variety of factors, including a biopsy sampling error, expertise of the pathologist, natural loss of infection due to advanced atr...
Objective: This study aimed to quantify the discrepancy between perceived and ideal sleep duration among primary care patients and identify demographic, lifestyle, and psychological factors associated with this expectation–reality gap. Methods:...
A scientific advisory panel of seven U.S. and Canadian sleep experts performed a clinical appraisal by comparing general medical opinion, assessed via a survey of practicing clinicians, regarding insomnia treatment, with the available scientific evid...
The objectives of this study were to identify and correlate orofacial anatomy discrepancies as biometric data and the impact of its rehabilitation as an educational, forensic approach to human identification. An observational and retrospective cohort...
Medication reconciliation is an important aspect of a patient’s care process that is ideally performed by clinical pharmacists. Despite literature supporting this process in other patient populations, cystic fibrosis (CF) lacks research in this...
There is a discrepancy between the patients requiring organ transplants and the donors available to meet that demand. Many patients die every year while on the waiting list, and there is a need to bridge this gap. For many years, medical practitioner...
Transitioning from being a student to becoming a professional is challenging even though medical education provides periods of clinical practice and clerkships to support the transfer between university and the future work as a doctor. Using an ethno...
A complete medication plan (MPlan) increases medication safety and adherence and is crucial in care transitions. Countries that implemented a standardized MPlan reported benefits on patients’ understanding and handling of their medication. Aust...
Increasing use of intrauterine devices (IUDs) makes effective pain management essential for high-quality care. However, gaps between patient and clinician pain perceptions, along with limited training in managing IUD-related acute pain, contribute to...
The completeness and integrity of multimodal medical data are critical determinants of surgical success and postoperative recovery. However, because of issues such as poor sensor contact, small vibrations, and device discrepancies during signal acqui...
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