In this case, hospital stays depending on potential consequences of medication errors as estimated by physicians were simulated using GHIM software (Hospital and medical information management) based on the diagnosis-related groups of the French medical hospital information system.
(Trial registration Current Controlled Trials ISRCT N30522359) Accurate measurement of adherence is a prerequisite for rigorous research on the patterns, determinants and consequences of medication adherence.
Our findings provide more precise information than previously available on the potential severity and clinical consequences of medication errors in terms of required monitoring, hospitalisation, and treatment.
On the other hand, health services increasingly focus on pharmacological prevention without considering properly the long-term consequences of medication.
For example, the impact of migraine-related disability (e.g. MIDAS), the effect on HRQOL (e.g. MS-HRQOL, SF-36), and the risk and consequences of medication overuse should be considered.
Although the consequences of medication non-adherence were largely perceived as negative by the Panel, positive consequences of medication non-adherence were also listed.
Panellists viewed the consequences of medication non-adherence to be overwhelmingly, but not exclusively, negative.
Little data is available on the potential severity and clinical consequences of antineoplastic medication errors in terms of the need for enhanced patient monitoring, new or prolonged hospitalisation, and initiation of new treatments.
That in turn has sparked a wave of prescription-medication addiction among vets -- the unintended consequence of modern medicine's reliance on powerful narcotics to manage both acute and chronic pain.
