Personalized medicine, which targets care based on a patient’s genomics, genetics, medical status, personal circumstances, and care preferences, is transforming health care delivery. Meanwhile, ...
Shifting from claims to integrated electronic health records to calculate quality metrics will improve reported quality attributable to data capture changes, not true quality improvements. While the ...
Yin and associates note that the up to 50% of parents make errors in the dosing of liquid medication for children, but relatively few data are available to compare ...
On January 31, 2018, Noven Pharmaceuticals, the US subsidiary of the Japanese Hisamitsu Pharmaceuticals, announced positive results from their Phase III trial of the transdermal (skin patch) ...
For many years, doctors have been using the teaspoon measurement system when it comes to prescribing medication for children, but a new survey says it’s causing a lot of confusion for parents. Every ...
Now that the quality movement seems to be chugging along on a well-conceived, evidence-based track, some thoughtful person has come along tooting a horn to warn us to "wait here just a darn minute.
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance is debuting a three-hour continuing education course meant to help implement effective quality-improvement programs for HIV medication use. The course, “Measuring Quality ...