#30 Preventing and reporting medication error...

Send a message to the show!Pharmacovigilance has traditionally focused on the patient at the receiving end of a medicine. But what happens to medicines once they leave the body? In this episode, Valentina Giunchi and Joe Mitchell unpack the emerging field of ecopharmacovigilance ...  Show more

Send a message to the show!For all its ease and speed, disproportionality analysis can be distorted by many biases, making it easy to misuse and misinterpret. Michele Fusaroli from Uppsala Monitoring Centre and Eugene van Puijenbroek from the Netherlands pharmacovigilance centre ...  Show more

According to WHO, the global cost associated with medication errors is 42 billion US dollars. Errors can happen at the point of prescribing, transcribing from one system to the other, or administration, when the wrong patient is given either the wrong drug or the wrong dose. Medi ...  Show more

Remembering to take medication properly can sometimes be challenging, and even small mistakes can have unintended consequences. That’s why we’re talking about ways to fix three common prescription problems. To support more content like this, become an AARP member at aarp.org. An ...  Show more

Medicine is complex, and as a doctor you won't always do the right thing - but you can prepare yourself for when mistakes happen, both emotionally and logistically. In this episode of Doctor Informed, Clara Munro is joined by Susanna Stamford, a patient who was on the receiving ...  Show more

We miss potentially dangerous and even lethal drug interactions in EM more often than we realize. In this main episode EM Cases podcast with Dr. David Juurlink and Dr. Walter Himmel we review the common categories of drugs, the high risk patients and the key drug interactions tha ...  Show more