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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 ...
Prescription errors concern ambiguous abbreviations, the right spelling of the full name of drugs: improper use of the nomenclature, of decimal points, unit or rate expressions; legibility and proper instructions; miscalculations of the posology (quantity, route and frequency of administration, duration of the treatment, dosage form and dosage ...
This is a list of abbreviations used in medical prescriptions, including hospital orders (the patient-directed part of which is referred to as sig codes).This list does not include abbreviations for pharmaceuticals or drug name suffixes such as CD, CR, ER, XT (See Time release technology § List of abbreviations for those).
The false positive rate (FPR) is the proportion of all negatives that still yield positive test outcomes, i.e., the conditional probability of a positive test result given an event that was not present.
Among others, ISMP maintains and disseminates a list of "do not crush" medications, [3] as well as clinical best practices. [4] The ISMP's Medication Safety Self-Assessment tool has been used in surveys of medication safety in hospitals in the United States and elsewhere. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Medicine has come a long way in the past 100 years and most pills are coated, thus removing the need for the cotton. According to the Wall Street Journal, Bayer stopped the practice in 1999, but ...
Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation II: APAP: paracetamol (aka acetaminophen) (from its chemical name, N-acetyl-para-aminophenol) automatic positive airway pressure: APC: atrial premature contraction antigen-presenting cell activated protein C argon plasma coagulation: APD: adult polycystic disease automated peritoneal dialysis: APKD
internal medicine: various, including SBE and SLE: painful red lesions on the pads of the fingers and plantar surfaces Osler's sign: Sir William Osler: internal medicine: atherosclerosis: falsely elevated bp reading due to incompressibility of calcified vessels Palla's sign: Antonio Palla: internal medicine: pulmonary embolism: Pulmonary ...