Background: Prescribing errors are common in hospital settings. Regular review of medication charts is recommended as a way to reduce errors but it is not clear how often this happens. The aim of this ...

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 ...

Patients report side effects from medication for the treatment of depression 20 times more than psychiatrists have recorded in the charts. The researchers recommend the use of a self-administered ...

An extensive and easy-to-use collection of charts that present findings from decades of government survey data of drug use in the United States is now available to the public. An extensive and easy-to ...

US drug prices are high. But pharmaceutical companies insist that isn't the whole story, including on Tuesday, when seven top executives were grilled by senators on the subject. As part of the Tuesday ...

We found that a significant proportion of medication charts were not reviewed by physicians on their ward rounds. We are not aware of other studies that have looked at this. This may reflect the ...