Closing the Quality Gap
Author : Kaveh G. Shojania
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Disaster hospitals
ISBN : 9781587632594
Author : Kaveh G. Shojania
Publisher :
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 24,35 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Disaster hospitals
ISBN : 9781587632594
Author : Kerm Henriksen
Publisher :
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 35,21 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Medical
ISBN :
v. 1. Research findings -- v. 2. Concepts and methodology -- v. 3. Implementation issues -- v. 4. Programs, tools and products.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309459575
Drug overdose, driven largely by overdose related to the use of opioids, is now the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. The ongoing opioid crisis lies at the intersection of two public health challenges: reducing the burden of suffering from pain and containing the rising toll of the harms that can arise from the use of opioid medications. Chronic pain and opioid use disorder both represent complex human conditions affecting millions of Americans and causing untold disability and loss of function. In the context of the growing opioid problem, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) launched an Opioids Action Plan in early 2016. As part of this plan, the FDA asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to convene a committee to update the state of the science on pain research, care, and education and to identify actions the FDA and others can take to respond to the opioid epidemic, with a particular focus on informing FDA's development of a formal method for incorporating individual and societal considerations into its risk-benefit framework for opioid approval and monitoring.
Author : Horace Bryant Williams
Publisher :
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,20 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Communication in pharmacy
ISBN :
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 42,83 MB
Release : 2019-06-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309486483
The opioid crisis in the United States has come about because of excessive use of these drugs for both legal and illicit purposes and unprecedented levels of consequent opioid use disorder (OUD). More than 2 million people in the United States are estimated to have OUD, which is caused by prolonged use of prescription opioids, heroin, or other illicit opioids. OUD is a life-threatening condition associated with a 20-fold greater risk of early death due to overdose, infectious diseases, trauma, and suicide. Mortality related to OUD continues to escalate as this public health crisis gathers momentum across the country, with opioid overdoses killing more than 47,000 people in 2017 in the United States. Efforts to date have made no real headway in stemming this crisis, in large part because tools that already existâ€"like evidence-based medicationsâ€"are not being deployed to maximum impact. To support the dissemination of accurate patient-focused information about treatments for addiction, and to help provide scientific solutions to the current opioid crisis, this report studies the evidence base on medication assisted treatment (MAT) for OUD. It examines available evidence on the range of parameters and circumstances in which MAT can be effectively delivered and identifies additional research needed.
Author : Tamar F. Barlam
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1107166179
This practical reference guide from experts in the field details why and how to establish successful antibiotic stewardship programs.
Author : Therese M. Rafferty
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 22,6 MB
Release : 2000
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Zeshan Qureshi
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 36,12 MB
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0702055190
The Unofficial Guide to Prescribing lays out the practical steps of how to assess, investigate and manage a patient, with a focus on what to prescribe and how to prescribe it. Its aim is to empower newly graduated junior doctors to excel at dealing with emergencies and handling complex prescribing scenarios. Prescribing errors cost healthcare systems millions annually, so early training in prescribing has become an urgent priority of medical education and now forms an essential part of teaching and assessment. The Unofficial Guide to Prescribing (from the same stable as The Unofficial Guide to Passing OSCEs) is a new book designed to address this requirement. It is written by junior doctors still close to the transition from theory to practice, overseen by a review panel of senior clinicians to ensure accuracy, and designed to help medical students practise and learn as much as possible about prescribing, in actual clinical scenarios, before they have to do it for real. Each scenario is presented as you would see it in the hospital setting and covers: Initial step-by-step assessment of the patient: how to assess, assessment findings, and immediate management Initial investigations Initial management Reassessment Treatment Handing over the patient 'Prescribe' alerts throughout Written-up drug charts Blank drug charts for copying and practice
Author : Howard L. Fields
Publisher : Elsevier Publishing Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,39 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780444809841
This volume represents edited material that was presented at a conference on brainstem modulation of spinal nociception held in Beaune, France during July, 1987. Pain Modulation, Volume 77 in the series Progress in Brain Research reviews, analyses and suggests new research strategies on several relevant topics including: the endogenous opioid peptides; sites of action of opiates; the role of biogenic animes and non-opioid peptides in analgesia; dorsal horn circuitry; behavioural factors in the activation of pain modulating networks and clinical studies of nociceptive modulation.
Author : Jeremy A. Greene
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2007-02-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801884772
Physician-historian Jeremy A. Greene examines the mechanisms by which drugs and chronic disease categories define one another within medical research, clinical practice, and pharmaceutical marketing, and he explores how this interaction has profoundly altered the experience, politics, ethics, and economy of health in late-twentieth-century America.