A Spanish-speaking patient is complaining of being “intoxicado”. The non-Spanish speaking paramedics translate it as being intoxicated, while the intended meaning was “nauseated”. The patient is admitted to the hospital for a drug overdose. After being treated for this ...
Imagine a scenario when a medication's long-term use is linked to serious adverse drug reactions or another case where there ...
Posted by Arine,
Feb 13, 2024
Board additions to focus on further scale-up of Arine’s rapidly expanding health plan customer base SAN FRANCISCO, February ...
According to the World Health Organization, unsafe medication practices and medication errors are one of the main causes of ...
Since 1999, over 760,000 people have died from drug overdoses—that’s one person every 16 minutes. Many of those drug ...
Medication therapy management (MTM) was established in 2006, to improve therapeutic outcomes and medication safety. Since ...
Posted by Arine,
Nov 06, 2023
Medication therapy is among the most common therapies to treat medical conditions but it can lead to negative outcomes, ...
How a drug reacts in the body varies from person to person. Factors such as age, weight, and kidney function all have an ...
What’s one of the best ways to find out if a patient is getting quality care? Ask the patients themselves. Patient ...
According to the American Heart Association, Black Americans experience a 45% higher rate of mortality from stroke and a 30% ...