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  2. Pill organizer - Wikipedia

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    A pill organiser (or pill organizer), pill container, dosette box, pillcase or pillbox is a multicompartment compliance aid for storing scheduled doses of medications. Pill organisers usually have square-shaped compartments for each day of the week, although other more compact and discreet versions have come to market, including cylindrical and ...

  3. Patient safety - Wikipedia

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    Attention was brought to medical errors in 1999 when the Institute of Medicine reported that about 98,000 deaths occur every year due to medical errors made in hospitals. [9] By 1984 the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) had established the Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation(APSF).

  4. Medical error - Wikipedia

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    Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.

  5. Pill dispenser - Wikipedia

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    Pill dispensers are items which release medication at specified times, to assist patients in adhering to their prescribed medication regime. They may also alert the patient that it is time to take the medication.

  6. Evidence-based medicine - Wikipedia

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    Systematic errors as a result of selection bias, information bias and confounding; Quantitative aspects of diagnosis and treatment; The effect size and aspects regarding its precision; Clinical importance of results; External validity or generalizability; Application of results in practice [61] Evaluation of performance [62]

  7. Dying To Be Free - The Huffington Post

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    The medical establishment had come to view Suboxone as the best hope for addicts like Patrick. Yet of the dozens of publicly funded treatment facilities throughout Kentucky, only a couple offer Suboxone, with most others driven instead by a philosophy of abstinence that condemns medical assistance as not true recovery.

  8. Pillbox - Wikipedia

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    Pillbox may refer to: Pill organizer, a container for medicine; Pillbox hat, a woman's hat with a flat crown, straight upright sides, and no brim; Pillbox ...

  9. Intention-to-treat analysis - Wikipedia

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    In medicine an intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis of the results of a randomized controlled trial is based on the initial treatment assignment and not on the treatment eventually received. ITT analysis is intended to avoid various misleading artifacts that can arise in intervention research such as non-random attrition of participants from the ...