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Showing papers in "Farmacia Hospitalaria in 2008"


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TL;DR: The updated version of the medication error classification system is presented to improve medication safety information management in such a way as to allow data to be used ever more efficiently for making medication use systems safer for patients.

58 citations


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TL;DR: To identify and resolve discrepancies between the medications prescribed when patients are admitted to hospital and the medication usually taken by selected patients, adapting the prescriptions to the pharmacotherapeutic guidelines and the clinical condition of the patient.

39 citations


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TL;DR: Although the Satisfaction Index is a useful indicator for identifying improvements, the reasons for dissatisfaction are also required as a complement to this information.

28 citations


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TL;DR: The proportion of medication errors in a tertiary hospital, global and for each delivery medication system is estimated, to describe the error types and the implied medications, and to analyze the factors associated to the same ones.

25 citations


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TL;DR: The prevalence of NRM in those who attended the emergency department, the high percentage of avoidability and the cost imposed on the Health Service seem to sufficiently argue a case for the consideration that NRM as a problem which requires the implementation of prevention programmes based on drug-treatment monitoring.

24 citations



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TL;DR: Revelandose como metodo ideal el que sea altamente sensible y especifico, permita medida cuantitativa y continua, sea fiable and reproducible, rapido and economico.

19 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a prospective, observational study into medication errors was carried out on 308 hospitalised patients, of which 107 patients had at least one medication discrepancy (34.7%), and the most common cause was forgettingfulness or a lack of attention to detail (53.3%).

19 citations


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TL;DR: Although the Satisfaction Index is a useful indicator for identifying improvements, the reasons for dissatisfaction are also required as a complement to this information.

19 citations


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TL;DR: An initial estimate of drug interactions in an internal medicine service and to look at any factors associated with their appearance found that drug interaction is a serious clinical problem which requires more in depth information and medical attention.

18 citations


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TL;DR: The majority of the patients studied require some type of nutritional act, although not all of them suffer from malnutrition.

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TL;DR: A high level of satisfaction has been achieved and safety has improved with regards to the use of medication in a hospital discharge information programme developed as a care service.

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TL;DR: Drug interaction is a serious clinical problem which requires the availability of more in depth information and medical attention and this was not the case for gender, age and co-morbidity.

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TL;DR: To identify and resolve discrepancies between the medications prescribed when patients are admitted to hospital and the medication usually taken by selected patients, adapting the prescriptions to the pharmacotherapeutic guidelines and the clinical con- dition of the patient is studied.

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TL;DR: This type of analysis contributes to rationalising the use of antifungal agents in the hospital setting and in high-risk patients such as oncohaematological ones in spite of the limitations of the unconsidered costs.

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TL;DR: La clasificacion utilizada para los errores «por tipo of error» sigue la adaptacion espanola de the clasIFICacion Nacional Coordinating Causal for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention realizada por Otero.

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TL;DR: The quality of life in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis is low, determined by pain and symptoms of depression, according to a Observational, descriptive and multi-centre study.

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TL;DR: The majority of the patients studied require some type of nutritional act, although not all of them suffer from malnutrition.

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TL;DR: It is concluded that the outbreak would be related to the washing process performed previously to the sterilization of the instrumentation used in the surgery, mainly because the recommendation to use distilled and sterile water for this purpose was not followed and, on the contrary, tap water continued to be used.

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TL;DR: The types of error were classified in accordance with the terminology and taxonomy published by Otero and cols in the document “Medication errors: standardisation of terminology and classification”.

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TL;DR: Findings show that systematic monitoring of specific analytic parameters can be effective for attaining success in nutritional therapy, in terms of improvement in nutritional status and prevention and control of associated complications.

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TL;DR: The PC situation of HIV patients in Spain is of a good standard, but there is still a lot to be done to achieve acceptable, quality PC.

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TL;DR: According to this model, maintenance treatment with rituximab is cost-effective in patients with resistant or recurrent follicular lymphoma responding to induction treatment, in comparison to the usual practice of observing patients’ evolution.

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TL;DR: The structured support to interpersonal adhesion developed by trained healthcare professionals and individualized strategies has been demonstrated as being the most effective intervention strategy to improve adhesion with antiretroviral treatment.

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TL;DR: The purpose of these guidelines is to develop a process of monitoring plasma antimicrobial concentrations that is as homogeneous as possible to facilitate the design of multicenter studies, as well as the interpretation and comparison of results.

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TL;DR: Analysis of the collaboration networks in FARMACIA HOSPITALARIA has made it possible to identify the groups of authors and institutions in the area, as well as their relationships in terms of research and scientific publications, and to identify collaboration patterns in other national and international journals.

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TL;DR: Pharmaceutical care has been systematised, providing an instrument that enables all the hospitals to work in a standardised manner, and the active participation of the pharmacist in the healthcare team contributes to preventing and resolving drug-related problems.


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TL;DR: According to this model, maintenance treatment with rituximab is cost-effective (cost per LYG < 30,000 euro) in patients with resistant or recurrent follicular lymphoma responding to induction treatment, in comparison to the usual practice of observing patients' evolution.

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TL;DR: The prevalence of NRM in those who attended the emergency department, the high percentage of avoidability and the cost imposed on the Health Service seem to sufficiently argue a case for the consideration that NRM as a problem which requires the implementation of prevention programmes based on drug-treatment monitoring.