Computer prescribing systems risk patient safety
...n accompanying commentary. But timely and relevant warnings will prevent disaster. Hospital systems already ex...d prescribing data and that present a hierarchy of warnings to inform, and occasionally forbid the prescriber to continue. "Those who walk the therapeutic tight...Licensed alcohol establishments continue to sell to intoxicated patrons
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...ecurity Advisory System (HSAS), which communicates warnings of terrorist attacks using colors, words, and phrases in five different threat levels. Participants in another study conducted at North Carolina State University reported significant confusion in correctly ordering the colors and words attributed to ......which annually provides information on drug usage, warnings and drug interactions; government documents; or an internet site. Reviewers were able to obtain 84%of the referenced documents in the ads. However, researchers could only obtain 20% of the data-on-file documents, despite repeated requests to the pha...UCLA study: Nearly a third of drug ads in medical journals contain no references for medical claims
...which annually provides information on drug usage, warnings and drug interactions; government documents; or an internet site. Reviewers were able to obtain 84 percent of the referenced documents in the ads. However, researchers could only obtain 20 percent of the data-on-file documents, despite repeated r...Tobacco industry pays scientists to challenge secondhand smoke's link to infant death risk
... effort to undermine the credibility of the health warnings their web site acknowledges," Glantz says. In their paper, he and his co-authors call into question the practice of accepting tobacco industry funds to support research. "The tobacco industry's long and consistent history of manipulating the content ......he physician as clinical-dosage guidelines or when warnings about antibiotics are placed in the paper chart and not seen by physicians who are using only the computerized system. Human-machine interface flaws reflect machine rules that do not correspond to work organization or usual behaviors. For examp...Drug companies and governments must act on fake drug problem
...f patients could be eased by issuing public health warnings from available information that is currently kept ...ave a legal duty to investigate, issue appropriate warnings and share information across borders." The authors argue that a "multifaceted approach" is needed t...