Provision of a hospital pharmacist-prepared IRCMAC resulted in significant reductions in missed or delayed medication doses and use of locum medical services after discharge from hospital.
"There are enormous potential improvements in health care possible by using mobile computing to record medication doses, prevent wrong medications, maintain proper schedules," Mr. Bravman said.
Of course, it's important for providers to adjust medication doses over time, to make sure that patients take their medications, and so on.
Patients in modules 0, 1 and 2 did not significantly differ with regard to the number of medication doses.
In this pharmacoeconomic study frovatriptan treatment has shown to be less expensive than rizatriptan, despite the slightly higher number of rescue medication doses required.
We compared medication doses and durations, and clinicians' assessment of patient comfort in patients randomized to the intervention and control groups.
Patients assigned to module 3 reported significantly more days of analgesic consumption and medication doses per month than those in the other modules.
Moore 2004 [87] 144 USA P – Broselow tape None 1 N/A Findings: Despite using Broselow tape, only 56% correct medication doses delivered.
Less informative than medication days/month is the total number of medication doses consumed per month that was reported in four studies [15, 22, 23, 27].
The main analysis compared alcohol withdrawal severity scores and medication doses for 24 h before dexmedetomidine therapy with values during the first 24 h of dexmedetomidine therapy.
Adherence was measured by self-reported missed/skipped medication doses and seizure frequencies and by the presence of intractable seizures as indicated in patients' medical charts.
