Only a quarter of NHS trusts have fully transitioned to electronic patient records (EPR), and most remain reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, according to a survey. This is despite the NHS ...

Medication errors are an all-too-common problem in the U.S. In fact, they affect nearly 5 percent of the nation’s hospitalized patients, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. In ...

Chelsea Renfro, PharmD, discusses the importance of rigorous study designs to establish medication efficacy. It is necessary to balance rigorous clinical trials with real-world evidence (RWE) to show ...

Three quarters of trusts in England that responded to a survey by The BMJ are still reliant on paper patient notes and drug charts, despite progress towards electronic records and prescribing. The ...

First Databank (FDB) has introduced the Meducation Bedside solution, a tool designed to streamline the delivery of medication education directly within the electronic medication administration record ...

Hospital chief medical information officers are almost unanimous in recognizing the patient safety improvements that have been brought about by better medication management processes, according to a ...

The following article was originally published in Preventing Infection in Ambulatory Care, the quarterly e-publication from the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology ...

In a new study to asses patient awareness of medications prescribed during a hospital visit, 44% of patients believed they were receiving a medication they were not, and 96% were unable to recall the ...