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Nursing Homes’ Misuse of Medications May Increase Risk of Dementia Another study concludes that benzodiazepine use is associated with an increase risk of Alzheimer’s disease. This recent study states that unwarranted, long term use of benzodiazepine drugs should be considered as a public health concern. Benzodiazepines are a class of drugs mainly used to treat anxiety or insomnia. Unfortunately, nursing…
Medication Errors Are Increasing in Nursing Homes There is drug abuse going on in a large segment of our health care industry — the increased push of anti-psychotics drugs in nursing homes. These dangerous medications, anti-psychotics, are being prescribed at an...
Elderly Patients Who are Given Anti-Psychotic Medications are at a Greater Risk of Acute Kidney Injury A Message To Nursing Homes to Reduce Anti-Psychotic Drugs A Message To Nursing Homes to Reduce Anti-Psychotic Drugs – The Annals of Internal Medicine published a recent report about a study that concludes that there are safety concerns about the use of antipsychotic drugs…
Drugs and Medication Errors – An Epidemic Problem in Nursing Homes Recent news out of Florida cited to the fact that in the past three years, 43% of nursing homes have been cited for deficiencies directly or indirectly related to medication errors according to the...
Medicare Takes Action against Never-Events Medicare Attempts to Reduce Health Care Costs and Promote Patient Safety Medicare Takes Action against Never-Events – Certain types of medical errors should never happen. According to the California Association of Health...