Detroit-based Wayne State University researchers found a standardized hand-off procedure between hospitals to skilled nursing facilities that improved communication and decreased late medication ...

Six measures to improve the safety of medication administration and delivery could cut healthcare costs nearly half a trillion dollars, according to the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics. Among ...

In 2008, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued Appendix A, Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidance for Hospitals, which spells out the conditions of participation ...

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 ...

One of the most serious responsibilities that healthcare providers have is administering medications correctly. There are seven rights of medication administration and three checks to protect patients ...

Oral medication administration in older adults encompasses a range of challenges and innovative solutions aimed at improving therapeutic outcomes in an ageing population. Age-related physiological ...

The ISMP guidelines are not designed to be adopted unchanged by hospitals to represent the hospital's medication administration policies. Instead, the ISMP believes that each hospital (through an ...