A new national medication chart being piloted in Adelaide from today promises to make prescribing and administering drugs to patients safer. The in-patient medication chart will become a mandatory ...

Twenty-one consultants were observed during the course of the study. Eight were general physicians. The remainder were from gastroenterology (3), the liver transplant service (5), haematology (2), ...

A case study showing an example of how medication administration errors and recording errors led to a nurse facing the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s fitness to practise panel Subscribe today for ...

We found that a significant proportion of medication charts were not reviewed by physicians on their ward rounds. We are not aware of other studies that have looked at this. This may reflect the ...