The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...
Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...
The new JCAHO medication management standards place a greater emphasis on medication safety than did previous standards. The new standards are also more prescriptive and have a larger number of more ...
Decreasing alteplase utilization in outpatient infusion: Enhancing safety and efficiency. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2025 ASCO Quality Care Symposium. This abstract does not include a ...
For decades, pharmacy automation has been defined by what it can do mechanically — count, sort, dispense. Robots fill bins. Barcode systems flag errors. Cabinets track controlled substances. These are ...
Continuous process improvement can benefit all aspects of life — from personal New Year’s resolutions to complex drug development. In a world where two-thirds of planned improvement initiatives fail, ...
Fatigue. Dizziness. Brain fog. Falls. Many older adults assume these symptoms are simply part of aging. But according to St. Louis pharmacist Hedva Barenholtz Levy, the real culprit could be hiding in ...