Importance Improving patient safety is at the forefront of policy and practice. While considerable
progress has been made in understanding the frequency, causes and consequences of …

Objective To examine if there is an increased participation in physical or sporting activities
following an Olympic or Paralympic games. Design Overview of systematic reviews. Methods …

… A recently published study by Slight et al. found that some alerts (eg, duplicate drug alerts)
contained confusing wording and did not explicitly describe the error present, (eg, “(the drug) …

Background Clinical decision support (CDS) for electronic prescribing systems (computerized
physician order entry) should help prescribers in the safe and rational use of medicines. …

… Phenothiazines and SSRI prevalence rates have been relatively constant (phenothiazines
with a slight decrease and SSRIs with a slight increase) (Fig. 1D). Statins, however, have …

Background Electronic prescribing is increasingly used, in part because of government
incentives for its use. Many of its benefits come from clinical decision support (CDS), but often too …

Objective To define the types and numbers of inpatient clinical decision support alerts,
measure the frequency with which they are overridden, and describe providers’ reasons for …

Objective Patient-centered approaches to improving medication adherence hold promise,
but evidence of their effectiveness is unclear. This review reports the current state of scientific …

… allergy module, we identified a 3.6% prevalence of food allergy and intolerance, a figure
largely consistent with previous estimates using oral food challenges (OFCs),1, 15 and slightly …

… One GP admitted that their practice was slightly more on the ‘ad hoc side’, relying on the
patient to turn up for monitoring. ‘We could probably sit down here and think which drugs do we …