Unit dose medication carts in a 500-bed university hospital were monitored for accuracy and completeness after delivery to the nursing station. The contents of the cart were compared with the nurse's patient medication record. Discrepancies were recorded for evaluation. All medication cart distribution errors found were analyzed to identify the source and were tabulated to determine error rate. Three major categories of errors were discovered: pharmacy technician errors not corrected by the pharmacist, errors associated with nurse's patient medication records, and errors resulting from lost orders.

Medication Errors↗

PubMed1975

Etiological factors of the Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

Etiologic factors of the Stevens-Johnson syndrome, both drug-related and nondrug-related, are discussed. A description of the Stevens-Johnson syndrome as a symptom complex is presented. Available literature is reviewed and critiqued as to its contribution in helping to define the role of drugs as specific etiologic factors in the syndrome. A patient case history is presented to demonstrate the difficulty of determining the causative agent for the syndrome, and to emphasize the need for a complete drug history before specific agents are implicated. The need for caution and discretion in reporting and implicating agents without the availability of a complete patient history is discussed.

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Pulmonary function and morbidity in textile mill workers.

The study was conducted in a large cotton textile mill in Surat City. A selected number of 278 employees were evaluated for social, anthropological and pulmonary functions. No parameters except the period of exposure to dust reduced pulmonary function; it was statistically significant in the case of vital capacity and maximum breathing capacity. Out of 23.94% pulmonary morbidity observed, the byssinosis rate was 1.62.

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