The Institute for Safe Medication Practices has partnered with the American Hospital Association and Health Research & Educational Trust to launch the 2011 Medication Safety Self Assessment for ...

Medication assessment, which includes both medication reconciliation and a comprehensive medication review, is therefore critical to geriatric functional assessment and patient safety. Maintaining ...

such as certain forms of lung cancer. "Above all, we see great potential in this method for improving the assessment of resistance and simplifying the choice of drugs when new medications are ...

discontinuation of unnecessary and/or inappropriate medications, recommendation of alternatives) were part of the comprehensive assessment and were forwarded to the primary oncologist and/or medical ...

The 2000 and 2004 assessments have helped hospitals improve medication safety, according to the release. The AHA encourages all hospitals to participate. The deadline for submissions is Aug. 31, 2011.

Benefits of Early Versus Delayed Palliative Care to Informal Family Caregivers of Patients With Advanced Cancer: Outcomes From the ENABLE III Randomized Controlled Trial We retrospectively examined ...