What if a healthcare provider could prescribe more than medicine? Across British Columbia, they can, and they do. Today, ...

Study Results from Dartmouth College Update Understanding of Medicare and Medicaid (Antibiotic Use in Cold and Flu Season and Prescribing Quality A Retrospective Cohort Study) According to the news ...

Study results published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggest there was wide variation in antibiotic prescribing for older patients based on geography and the season in which the prescriptions ...

Dermatology Nursing. 2004;16(6):547-548. The adapted Beers' Criteria (HCFA Guidelines for Potentially Inappropriate Medications in the Elderly) identifies medications noted by an expert panel to have ...

When agitated dementia patients wander or shout through the night, families and caregivers understandably feel the need to treat this frightening and potentially dangerous behavior. Antipsychotic ...

Researchers have found that prescribing guideline-directed medical treatment (GDMT), regardless of the number of medications, can improve survival rates in patients 90 years of age and older following ...