This PHP project is part of the on-going work of previous nursing students who identified a serious, but modifiable health risk to LEP patients who must decide if they ar [...]

Building on previously developed ontology for clinical orders, this work undertakes to answer questions about the usefulness of continued ontology development. Three ques [...]

Unsafe practices and lack of standardization exist with preparation and administration of intravenous push medications (IVPM). Consensus standards for safe IVPM state to [...]

February 2014 issue of the Scribe. Contents include growth of coordinated care organizations in Oregon, medical services for uninsured and low-income people, disaster rea [...]

Medication errors affect millions of patients each year. These errors contribute to significant harm, including adverse events, increased costs of care, and even deaths. [...]

Optimizing medication management is a low-hanging fruit towards improving patient safety. However, while it is understood that medication errors are to be minimized, ther [...]

Errors in the management of self medication in the home environment are not unusual. The occurrence of potentially serious medication errors can be documented by talking [...]

Electronic health record (EHR) systems provide a means of tracking a broad range of patient health information including demographics, progress notes, problems, medicatio [...]

Chemotherapy, the prescription and administration of drugs to cancer patients, has traditionally been prescribed according to standard protocols through paper-based syste [...]