FRIDAY, Dec. 5 (HealthDay News) — Allowing patients to control their own pain medication intravenously is four times more likely to cause the patient harm than other medications, a new study says.
 
The report, published in the December issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, shows that most mistakes involving intravenous patient-controlled [...]

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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and adverse effects, new research shows.
Dr. Kevin A. Clauson of Nova Southeastern University in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and his colleagues found few factual errors in [...]

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