Hospitals that don't educate and cross-train pharmacists, nurses and doctors in medication safety undermine their patient safety efforts, according to an expert from the Institute for Safe Medication ...

New credential formally recognizes pharmacy technicians as essential leaders in medication error prevention and patient ...

For older adults, both prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications play a vital role in treating health conditions. They help ease symptoms and support overall well-being. To ensure the ...

ROCKFORD — Lifescape Community Services, along with the Rockford College Spanish Club, will offer Medication Use Safety Training (MUST) for Spanish-speaking seniors at 1 p.m. Dec. 4 at Lifescape, 705 ...

The current standard for medication tracking within healthcare systems demands a large amount of active human engagement, from scanning barcodes to manually counting units of medication. The manual ...

take the wrong medication take too much medication mix up your medications combine medications that shouldn’t be combined forget to take a dose on time With 82 percent of American adults taking at ...

There were considerable differences in number and type of checking procedures among administration routes, professional groups, wards and ambulatory infusion units, and hospitals. During the ...

CLEVELAND — While drug overdose deaths declined among younger Americans last year, a troubling trend emerged for seniors across the nation. Adults 65 and older experienced an 11.4% increase in ...

Cancer care continues to advance at a remarkable pace, with new drug development, increasingly complex scheduling, tighter margins for error, and growing pressure to deliver personalized, safe, and ...

National Marrow Donor Program–Sponsored Multicenter, Phase II Trial of HLA-Mismatched Unrelated Donor Bone Marrow Transplantation Using Post-Transplant Cyclophosphamide Patients were eligible for the ...