Publications by authors named "Maria Esther Duran Garcia"
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- PCSK9 inhibitors (PCSK9i) are effective treatments for patients with high cholesterol who struggle to meet LDL-C targets or can't use other cholesterol-lowering meds.
- A study involving 115 patients showed a significant reduction in LDL-C levels, with 84.6% meeting therapy goals, although some factors like female sex and specific medications influenced outcomes.
- Mild adverse drug reactions occurred in 38.1% of participants, but most were manageable, pointing to overall safety despite some differences between the two drugs tested (alirocumab and evolocumab).
Background: Quality management systems are widely used to improve the quality and efficiency of healthcare services. However, evidence regarding the value of the European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) model in improving the performance of hospital departments is lacking.
Objective: To describe the value of the EFQM model as a quality framework for improving the performance of a hospital pharmacy department (PD).
A 61-year-old man attended the emergency department with decreased level of consciousness, repetitive language, and memory loss. Clinical history included type II diabetes and hypertension. Domiciliary treatment included oral metformin 850 mg every 24 hours and oral indapamide 2.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Medication reconciliation process has proved to be an effective tool to improve the safety of drug use. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of an intervention aimed to decrease unintended discrepancies between patient's usual treatment and medications prescribed on admission to the Department of Internal Medicine.
Methods: A quasi-experimental study was carried out from June 2009 to May 2010, analyzing discrepancies between home medication and drugs prescribed in a tertiary care hospital, before (first phase) and after (second phase) an electronic reconciliation tool was introduced at admission.
Purpose: Medication errors (MEs) are important in terms of their magnitude and severity, and there are numerous systems in place to reduce their occurrence. However, the ideal system has not yet been identified. The authors' institution uses three different medication prescription-dispensation systems which operate simultaneously.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFMedication error prevalence.
Int J Health Care Qual Assur
September 2010
Purpose: Healthcare risk epidemiology identifies medication error as the commonest cause of adverse effects on patients. Medication error can occur at any phase of the complex medication process so prevalence rates need to be estimated at each drug treatment phase: prescription, transcription and administration along with their clinical repercussions. This paper aims to investigate this issue.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To report the results of a survey directed at medical and nursing staff as a method of improving the quality of procedures, in accordance with standard ISO 9001:2000.
Method: Cross-sectional study using a self-administered questionnaire. A sample size of 405 was calculated as 405, for nurses and 337 for medical staff, assuming an overall percentage of satisfaction of 80%, with a precision of 3.