What is known and Objective Potentially inappropriate prescribing ( PIP ) has significant
clinical, humanistic and economic impacts. Identifying PIP in older adults may reduce their …

Community pharmacists are the third largest healthcare professional group in the world after
physicians and nurses. Despite their considerable training, community pharmacists are the …

What is known and objective STOPP / START are explicit screening tools that identify
potentially inappropriate prescribing in older adults. Our objective was to update our 2013 …

Background. Cyclosporine (CsA) dosing is traditionally based on trough blood levels (C 0)
rather than area under the concentration-time curve (AUC), although AUC correlates better …

Objectives The under-reporting of medication errors can compromise patient safety. A
qualitative study was conducted to enhance the understanding of barriers to medication error …

Objectives: To evaluate the practical application and psychometric properties of three health
utility measures in a sample of MS patients with a broad range of neurological disability as …

Abstract Although administrative health care databases have long been used to evaluate
adverse drug effects, responses to drug safety signals have been slow and uncoordinated. We …

Background: While pharmacists are trained in the selection and management of prescription
medicines, traditionally their role in prescribing has been limited. In the past 5 years, many …

Neoral dosing is traditionally based on cyclosporine (CyA) trough levels (C 0). Four-h area
under the curve (AUC 0-4) for Neoral in the early posttransplantation period was shown …

• A profession’s scope of practice encompasses the activities its practitioners are educated
and authorized to perform. The overall scope of practice for the profession sets the outer limits …