CDC Opioid Guideline Reshaped Prescribing for Older Adults, but Cancer Patients Were Largely Spared
A large SEER-Medicare analysis found that after the 2016 CDC opioid guideline, prescribing and high-risk co-prescribing fell far more among ...
Tag: medication safety
Crushing Pills in Nursing Homes: One in Three Manipulations May Be Unsafe
A national Italian study of 82 long-term care facilities found that nearly one in four solid oral medications is altered ...
Autoimmune Disease Diagnoses Quietly Shape Patients’ Decisions About Having Children
A new cross-sectional survey study reveals how diagnoses of autoimmune connective tissue diseases and their treatments shape patients' decisions about ...
Pharmacists Reach Landmark Consensus on Child Medication Safety Priorities
A two-round Delphi consensus among nineteen Saudi pediatric clinical pharmacists has produced seventy validated and fifteen top-priority recommendations for preventing ...
Diabetes Drugs Often Continue Until Death in Dementia Patients, Landmark Study Finds
A landmark study of more than 16,500 people in the United Kingdom and Australia shows that glucose-lowering medications often persist ...
WeChat Coaching Helps Older Patients Stay Safe With Medications After Hospital Discharge
A randomized controlled trial in Fuzhou, China found that a structured Participation for Medication Safety program combining teach-back education and ...
One in Three Older Hospital Patients Gets a Wrong Blood Thinner Dose, Study Finds
A French multicenter study of 421 hospitalized older adults found that 32 percent of direct oral anticoagulant prescriptions were inappropriate ...
Future Doctors, Pharmacists and Nurses Feel Ready to Tackle Overtreatment, National Survey Finds
A national survey of 1,777 Belgian medicine, pharmacy and nursing students reveals encouraging attitudes toward deprescribing but major gaps in ...
Hidden Prescription Cascades May Be Harming Millions of Older Adults, Ontario Study Warns
A large Ontario study published in The BMJ has identified the 24 most common and potentially harmful prescribing cascades in ...
How to Design Deprescribing Guidelines Clinicians Will Actually Use
Modern medicine has become remarkably good at putting patients on medications—and strikingly bad at taking them off. Clinical practice guidelines, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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