CMOs need their physicians to be addressing prescription overload. For patients on multiple medications, deprescribing is a key strategy to promote patient safety and care quality. The primary risk ...

After approval of the study protocol by the ethics committee of the Medical Faculty of the University of Heidelberg, we evaluated parenteral drug treatment in patients admitted to a 12-bed ICU in a ...

PHOENIX -- Tailoring potential drug-drug interaction (DDI) alerts to the intensive care unit (ICU) setting significantly reduced the number of administered high-risk drug combinations, a cluster ...

Discharged patients are at an increased risk of unintentional discontinuation of commonly prescribed chronic disease medications, with this risk even greater for patients who were admitted to an ...

If the drug works in people, it could prevent kidney injury in high-risk populations, or potentially even treat other ...

At least three children ended up in the hospital after taking a liquid form of clonidine dispensed at a Kentucky pharmacy Google street view At least three children are in the hospital after taking a ...

Drug therapy is a complex process with numerous parameters modulating its success and safety. The selection of a drug and the definition of its dosage regimen, which must consider both disease and ...

Serious damage to short-term kidney function—known as acute kidney injury, or AKI—can be fatal and also increase the risk of ...