Articles Tagged With: adverse
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Adverse Reactions to Antibiotics in Patients Receiving Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy
Approximately one-fifth of outpatient parenteral antimicrobial therapy recipients developed a clinically significant antimicrobial-related adverse drug event.
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Antibiotics and Adverse Events: Doctors, Do No Harm
A retrospective study found that among 1,488 hospitalized patients who received an antibiotic, 298 (20%) experienced at least one antibiotic-associated adverse drug event. Furthermore, 287 (19%) of the antibiotic regimens were not clinically indicated, and 56 (20%) of these were associated with an adverse drug event.
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What Every Prescriber Should Know: FDA’s Updated Warnings for Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics
Fluoroquinolones have risks and benefits that should be carefully considered before prescribing to patients for uncomplicated bacterial infections.
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CANDOR Toolkit Helps After Adverse Events
Prompt and honest communication with the patient and family members after an adverse event has become the best practice in healthcare over the past decade, and the federal government is supporting that effort with a new toolkit from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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AHRQ: EHRs associated with fewer adverse events
Cardiovascular, pneumonia, and surgery patients exposed to fully electronic health records were less likely to experience in-hospital adverse events, according to a new study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.
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Fully Electronic Health Records Tied to Lower Risk of In-Hospital Adverse Events
Do EHRs improve patient safety or put patients at risk? That’s the million dollar question.