While medications can improve patients' health, the process of prescribing them is complex
and error prone, and medication errors cause many preventable injuries. Computer provider …

Background Several new atypical antipsychotics have become available for use, but
knowledge about their pharmacology may not be widespread. Objective This review aims to …

Background: Data prior to 2011 suggest that a low percentage of patients hospitalized for
acute coronary syndromes filled high-intensity statin prescriptions upon discharge. Black …

Objectives: Prescribing alerts generated by computerized drug decision support (CDDS)
may prevent drug-related morbidity. However, the vast majority of alerts are ignored …

Abstract Background The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) uses the Adverse Event
Reporting System (FAERS) to support post-marketing safety surveillance programs …

Background: Notoriety bias is defined as “a selection bias in which a case has a greater
chance of being reported if the subject is exposed to the studied factor known to cause …

Background Medication errors are one of the leading causes of harmin health care. Review
and analysis of errors have often emphasized their preventable nature and potential for …

The first edition of this now classic work helped to establish mass spectrometry as the
premier tool for drug metabolism studies. Completely rewritten from start to finish, Using …

Background There is limited capacity to assess the comparative risks of medications after
they enter the market. For rare adverse events, the pooling of data from multiple sources is …

Introduction Since the introduction of therapeutic risk management regulatory guidance, an
increase in the number of risk minimization interventions (RMIs) published in the literature …