Calculating the cost of medication errors: A systematic review of approaches and cost variables.

Introduction: Medication errors are an unnecessary cost to a healthcare system and patients of a country. This review aimed to systematically identify published cost variables used to calculate the cost of medication errors and to explore any updates on findings already known on calculating the cost of medication errors during the past 10 years.

Methods: A systematic review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines.

Multifaceted pharmacist-led interventions in secondary care settings between countries of various income levels: a scoping review protocol.

Introduction: Clinical pharmacy services often involve multifaceted pharmacist-led interventions. However, current pharmacy practice models vary across different countries. Despite the documented benefits of clinical pharmacy services, the characteristics of pharmacist-led interventions in different countries have not yet been adequately explored and described.

Impact of selected clinical pharmacy services on medication safety and prescription cost of patients attending a selected primary healthcare setting: a translational experience from a resource-limited country.

Purpose Of The Study: The impact of clinical pharmacy (CP) services on primary healthcare (PH) is less well studied in resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the effect of selected CP services on medication safety and prescription cost at a PH setting in Sri Lanka.

Study Design: Patients attending a PH medical clinic with medications prescribed at the same visit were selected using systematic random sampling.

Association of waist circumference with haemoglobin A1c and its optimal cutoff for identifying prediabetes and diabetes risk in the Chinese population.

Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) is a marker of glycaemic control in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Increased waist circumference (WC) is known to be associated with T2DM. Therefore, we investigated the relationship of WC with HbA1c and explored its optimal cutoff for identifying prediabetes and diabetes risk.

The extent of community pharmacists' involvement in detecting and resolving Drug Related Problems (DRPs) in prescriptions - A real time study from Sri Lanka.

Background: Appropriate medication use is necessary to ensure patient safety. Drug Related Problems (DRPs) could result in patient harm.

Purpose: To assess the prevalence and types of DRPs in prescriptions, and the proportion of DRPs detected and resolved by community pharmacists during dispensation of prescriptions in a selected community pharmacy.

Impact of selected clinical pharmacy services on medication safety and prescription cost of patients attending a selected primary healthcare setting: a translational experience from a resource-limited country.

Purpose Of The Study: The impact of clinical pharmacy (CP) services on primary healthcare (PH) is less well studied in resource-limited countries. We aimed to evaluate the effect of selected CP services on medication safety and prescription cost at a PH setting in Sri Lanka.

Study Design: Patients attending a PH medical clinic with medications prescribed at the same visit were selected using systematic random sampling.

Application of Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to improve medication safety: a systematic review.

Medication safety is a phenomenon of interest in most healthcare settings worldwide. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) is a prospective method to identify failures. We systematically reviewed the application of FMEA in improving medication safety in the medication use process.

A narrative review on do's and don'ts in prescription label writing - lessons for pharmacists.

Providing medicines information is a key role of a pharmacist. Miscommunication between pharmacist and patient may lead to adverse drug events or therapeutic failure. The aim of the review was to summarize the available research findings on factors that lead to poor communication between pharmacist and patient when providing written medicines information on dispensing and auxiliary labels and identify successful interventional approaches that help to alleviate these concerns.

Ten years of clinical trial registration in a resource-limited setting: Experience of the Sri Lanka clinical trials registry.

Aim: We describe our experience of the first 10 years at the Sri Lanka Clinical Trials Registry (SLCTR).

Methods: We analyzed all trial records of the SLCTR over the study period. We collected information regarding trial characteristics and completeness of data entry in the SLCTR data set.

Safety of antiobesity drugs.

Obesity is a major health problem worldwide. Although diet and physical activity are crucial in the management of obesity, the long-term success rate is low. Therefore antiobesity drugs are of great interest, especially when lifestyle modification has failed.

The effectiveness of a 'Do Not Use' list and perceptions of healthcare professionals on error-prone abbreviations.

Background: The use of error-prone abbreviations has led to medication errors. Many safety organisations have introduced 'Do Not Use' lists (lists of error-prone abbreviations that should be avoided by prescribers), but the effectiveness of these lists have not been studied.

Objective: We assessed the effectiveness of the 'Do Not Use' list introduced to the study hospital, and sought the attitudes of healthcare professionals on other potentially dangerous abbreviations (not included in the 'Do Not Use' list) used in prescriptions.

Hay fever and hypertension in the US adult population.

Purpose: Hypertension is associated with inflammation. Whether the inflammation caused by allergic diseases such as allergic rhinitis can predispose to hypertension is controversial. Therefore, we studied the association between hay fever and hypertension in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Is human cytomegalovirus infection associated with hypertension? The United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999-2002.

Purpose: Recent studies have implicated the human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) as a possible pathogen for causing hypertension. We aimed to study the association between HCMV infection and hypertension in the United States National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).

Methods: We analyzed data on 2979 men and 3324 women in the NHANES 1999-2002.

Management of obesity in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2007-2008.

Purpose: The prevalence of obesity has been increasing in the United States. We set out to investigate the use of pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic therapy for the treatment of obesity in recent years.

Methods: We included 2630 men and 2702 women who took part in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey from 2007 to 2008.