At 78 years old, Maria has high blood pressure and needs to take seven different medications throughout the day at specific ...

The new JCAHO medication management standards place a greater emphasis on medication safety than did previous standards. The new standards are also more prescriptive and have a larger number of more ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...

The first core area involved improving the medical center's culture and systems for using unique patient identifiers and wristbands. In 2003, the medical center launched initiatives to identify ...

Proper medication management is critical for the health of older adults, especially those managing multiple long-term health conditions. It leads to better treatment results and improves the quality ...

Stephen Hoang, MD, is the medication safety officer and a pediatric anesthesiologist at Children’s Health System of Texas in Dallas. He recently connected with Becker’s to share his team’s biggest ...