Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES; Introduction. Medication reconciliation is a process designed to promote communication and teamwork to prevent medication errors at transition of care points. In Brazil studies on the medication reconciliation are still incipient. Aim. To analyze the medication reconciliation under aspects related to risk factors for unintentional discrepancie...
BACKGROUND. The patient safety is a global concern. In this context, practices for the prevention and correction of drugs arise such as medication reconciliation. Thus, investigations on obtaining the history of use of pharmacotherapy on admission are required for such actions. OBJECTIVE. Investigate the history of medication use in patients admitted to a University Hospital (HU/UFS). METHODS. Step 1 correspond...
It is estimated there are thousands of combinations of drugs, which may generate various adverse drug events, including drug interactions (DI). To assess the contribution of pharmacist to identification and management of DI in an intensive care unit (ICU). A longitudinal study was conducted in the ICU of a private hospital in the city of Aracaju-SE, between 2008 and 2009. The prevalence and clinical relevance o...
In the elderly population, increased predisposition to chronic diseases and consequent use of various medications increases the chances of using a potentially inappropriate drug therapy. The purpose of this review was to analyze research that uses tools to study potentially inappropriate drug therapy through the strengthening the reporting of observational studies in epidemiology (STROBE) initiative. A systemat...
Inadequate prescriptions are one of the biggest causes of adverse events related to medications. The aim of this study was to evaluate rational drug prescribing for elderly inpatients. A cross-sectional study was conducted to monitor the quality of drug prescriptions of patients admitted from May to August 2009, in a cardiovascular ward in Brazil. The quality evaluation of drug prescribing for elderly inpatient...
Com este estudo validou-se a persistência do espaço público através da leitura da cartografia de 1908, 1950, 1970 e 2014 para a Avenida da República e registou-se alterações na edificação destas datas, consequentes dos avanços na rede do metropolitano. Se por um lado, as avenidas novas com o plano de Ressano Garcia organizam a estrutura dos espaços públicos, por outro lado, não regram a altura do edificado, ass...