Browsing by Subject "Medication safety"
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Barriers and facilitators of medicines reconciliation at transitions of care in Ireland - a qualitative study
(2020)Background: Medication error at transitions of care is common. The implementation of medicines reconciliation processes to improve this issue has been recommended by many regulatory and safety organisations. The aim of ... -
Beaumont Hospital, 03 July 2018
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 08/10/2018) -
Cork University Hospital, 15 June 2018
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Drug Burden Index to Define the Burden of Medicines in Older Adults with Intellectual Disabilities: An Observational Cross-Sectional Study
(2018)Aims: The drug burden index (DBI) is a dose‐related measure of anticholinergic and sedative drug exposure. This cross‐sectional study described DBI in older adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) and the most ... -
Experiences of the Medication Use Process by People with Intellectual Disabilities. What a Pharmacist Should Know!
(2021)There is a scarcity of information about the experience of people with intellectual disabilities in the medication use process. Six people with intellectual disabilities consented to be interviewed by a pharmacist to ... -
Household Medication Safety Practices during the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Descriptive Qualitative Study Protocol
(2020)Introduction: Those who are staying at home and reducing contact with other people during the COVID-19 pandemic are likely to be at greater risk of medication-related problems than the general population. This study aims ... -
Interprofessional Education focused on Medication Safety: A Systematic Review.
(2022)Safe medication use necessitates interprofessional working, with calls to enhance interprofessional education (IPE) focusing on medication safety (MS) in healthcare professional (HCP) curricula. Little is known about the ... -
Letterkenny University Hospital, 26 June 2018
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 08/10/2018) -
Measuring and benchmarking safety culture: application of the safety attitudes questionnaire to an acute medical admissions unit.
(2009)Objectives: To assess the safety culture in an acute medical admissions unit (AMAU) of a teaching hospital in order to benchmark results against international data and guide a unit-based, integrated, risk management ... -
Medication Safety in High-Risk Situations
(World Health Organisation, 2019)Each country participating in the third WHO Global Patient Safety Challenge: Medication Without Harm is urged to take early priority action to improve medication safety in high-risk situations and reduce harm by (5): ... -
Medication Safety in Polypharmacy
(World Health Organisation, 2019)Ensuring medication safety in polypharmacy is one of the key challenges for medication safety today. Due to the traditional focus of both medical research and health care delivery models on single-disease interventions, ... -
Our Lady's Hospital Navan, 09 May 2018
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 05/07/2018) -
A prospective observational pilot study of adverse drug reactions contributing to hospitalisation in a cohort of middle-aged adults aged 45- 64 years.
(2020)Purpose: Determine the prevalence, severity and preventability of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), ADRs causing or contributing to hospitalisation (cADRs) and preventable ADRs (pADRs) in middle-aged patients aged 45-64 years ... -
Regional Hospital Mullingar, 17 May 2018
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 05/07/2018) -
The relationship between antiepileptic drug load and challenging behaviors in older adults with intellectual disability and epilepsy
(2021)Antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) may affect mood and behavior in people with epilepsy and intellectual disability. A high AED load, derived from AED polytherapy and/or high doses of AEDs, has been suggested to be a risk factor ... -
Report of the announced inspection of medication safety at Coombe Women & Infants University Hospital, Dublin, 25 October 2017
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 2017-12-08) -
St John's Hospital Limerick, 17 April 2018
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 05/07/2018) -
Temple Street Childrens University Hospital, 05 June 2018
(Health Information and Quality Authority, ireland, 08/10/2018)
