Browsing by Subject "Patient safety"
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Addressing Ethical Issues in the Design of Patient & Caregiver Monitoring Technology in Aged Care Settings
(Nova Publishers, 2020)The monitoring and evaluation of patient health and wellbeing, along with the quality of care delivery is critical to patient safety. The aged care sector has faced many scandals about the quality of aged care services. ... -
Association of Anticholinergic burden with adverse effects in older people with Intellectual Disabilities in Ireland: An observational cross-sectional study
(2016)Background:Older people with intellectual disabilities (ID) receive anticholinergic drugs but no studies to date have investigated cumulative anticholinergic exposure and its effects in adults with ID. Aim: To determine ... -
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 ... -
COVID-19: Is There Evidence for the Use of Herbal Medicines as Adjuvant Symptomatic Therapy?
(2020)Background: Current recommendations for the self-management of SARS-Cov-2 disease (COVID-19) include self-isolation, rest, hydration, and the use of NSAID in case of high fever only. It is expected that many patients will ... -
Design template for a medication safety programme in an acute teaching hospital
(2012)Background: Very limited data have been published about the design of medication safety programmes in hospitals. Objective: To describe a template for the structure and operation of a medication safety programme in an ... -
Do Patients Know How to Use Sublingual Glyceryl Trinitrate?
(2011)Glyceryl trinitrate is a nitrate, a potent coronary vasodilator which exerts its principal benefit by reducing venous return, which reduces left ventricular work. Vasodilation is also associated with the undesired effects ... -
Economic evaluation of a collaborative model of pharmaceutical care in an Irish hospital: cost-utility analysis
(2023)Background: A complex, collaborative pharmaceutical care intervention including medication review and reconciliation demonstrated a statistically significant reduction in the prevalence of discharge medication error and ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
Medication-Related Outcomes and Health Equity: Evidence for Pharmaceutical Care
(2023)Marginalised people experience diminished access to pharmaceutical care and worse medication-related outcomes than the general population. Health equity is a global priority. This article explores the key evidence of health ... -
Personal Electronic Records of Medications (PERMs) for medication reconciliation at care transitions: a rapid realist review.
(2021)Background Medication reconciliation (MedRec), a process to reduce medication error at care transitions, is labour- and resource-intensive and time-consuming. Use of Personal Electronic Records of Medications (PERMs) ... -
Primary Health Care and Community Pharmacy in Ireland: a lot of visions but little progress
(2020)Ireland is small country with a population of 4.8M which spent 6.9% of its gross domestic product on healthcare in 2018. Health services are provided through a twin track approach –all public services ... -
Profiling harmful medication errors in an acute Irish teaching hospital.
(2012)Background: Medication error reporting systems in hospitals are faced with the challenge of processing vast numbers of reports which identify a myriad of safety issues. With such large volumes of data and limited resources ... -
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 ...