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- Medication Safety and Your Health | Medication Safety | CDC
Medicines are safe when used as prescribed or as directed on the label There are risks in taking any medicine, vitamin or other supplement An adverse drug event (ADE) is when a medication causes harm to someone ADEs include allergic reactions, side effects, overmedication and medication errors They are a serious public health threat
- Medication Safety - Textbook of Patient Safety and Clinical Risk . . .
Medication errors can happen at any step of the medication use process, but a substantial burden of medication-related harm is focused primarily on three priority areas of healthcare delivery: transitions of care, polypharmacy and high-risk situations
- ISMP List of High-Alert Medications - ECRI and ISMP
High-alert medications are drugs that bear a heightened risk of causing significant patient harm when they are used in error Although mistakes may or may not be more common with these drugs, the consequences of an error are clearly more devastating to patients
- Think It Through: Managing the Benefits and Risks of Medicines
Risks could be less serious things, such as an upset stomach, or more serious things, such as liver damage Here are some tips from the Food and Drug Administration and some of its public health
- Fact Sheet Medications Linked To Falls - Centers for Disease Control . . .
Medication management can reduce interactions and side efects that may lead to falls STOP medications when possible SWITCH to safer alternatives REDUCE medications to the lowest efective dose Review prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, and herbal supplements
- Heat and Medications – Guidance for Clinicians - CDC
Medications and heat interact in three primary ways: Some medications interfere with thermoregulation and or fluid balance, amplifying the risk of harm from hot weather (e g , diuretics, some antipsychotic medications, some antidepressants, some antihypertensive agents)
- These 8 Common Medications May Increase Your Risk of Heat Stroke . . .
A heat wave is here for many parts of the U S this week Certain medications raise your risk of heat illnesses like heat stroke and exhaustion Here, doctors explain the medications that may put
- Medication Safety in High-risk Situations - World Health Organization
• medication safety in high-risk situations • medication safety in polypharmacy • medication safety in transitions of care Consider the following case scenario describing a medication error (see Annex 1) involving these three areas
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