Here are the six latest stories on prescription drug safe practices compiled from Becker’s ASC Review and Becker’s Hospital Review. 1. Hospitals with a medication safety officer scored higher on the ...

Nearly one-quarter of hospitalized patients experience at least one adverse event. Among these, adverse drug events (ADEs) were reported to account for 39%, which was the most common type and the most ...

Precision, personalization and proactive analysis can prevent adverse drug events and help save lives. “In lacking precision and personalization, the traditional approach to medication safety has ...

The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP), an ECRI company, released an updated version of its Guidelines for Safe Electronic Communication of Medication Information aimed at addressing the ...

How many bottles of unused or expired medication do you have in your medicine cabinet right now? Like leftover antibiotics or other prescriptions — or unused cold medicine or NSAIDs. So, when you have ...

While electronic prescribing has been shown to reduce medication errors and improve prescribing safety, it is vulnerable to error-prone processes. We review six intersecting areas in which changes to ...

When settling into your senior years, you need to be especially careful when taking medicines, herbal remedies and supplements, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration says. In addition, physical ...

To increase medication safety in oncology, checking procedures are increasingly applied by nurses, physicians, and pharmacists. However, little is known about the number, types, and consistency of ...

State officials are urging parents to safely store medications after confirming the deaths occurred over the past two months ...

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 ...