A new national medication chart being piloted in Adelaide from today promises to make prescribing and administering drugs to patients safer. The in-patient medication chart will become a mandatory ...

There is no perfect treatment for pain and sleeplessness. It all depends on your particular case -- the kind of pain you have and the other medications you take, for instance. The first step for ...

The chart-review method has been used in several research studies at Harvard Medical School's affiliated hospitals (Brigham and Women's, Massachusetts General, and Children's). The first step in ...

Dear Readers: Here are some Heloise Hints for taking medications: • Make a chart that includes the name of the drug, when it is to be taken and the number of days it was prescribed. Tape it where you ...

The Kentucky Equine Drug Research Council has formed a committee to examine the 170 differences between its drug and medication classification schedule, and the recommendations of the Association of ...

Medication chart: Cold damage, wind damage and heat ailments. From a manuscript copy of Shanghan diandian jin shu (The Gold-dust Book of Cold Damage) dated '1st year of the Zhengyuan reign period of ...

A chart-review study of medication errors in adult inpatients by Bates et al. [1] found that, for 530 errors identified on three medical units over a 51-day period, missing doses accounted for 53%, ...