Fig. 1: Drug substitution errors can occur even when the drug names do not bear obvious similarities. This hastily written prescription for the diabetic medication Avandia (rosiglitazone) resembles ...

To improve the situation, ISMP-Canada is developing several systems to track medication errors. One of the main ones is a self-reporting online form that allows practitioners to outline errors and ...

The group recorded a spike in carfentanil – a drug 10,000 times more potent than morphine – in the drug supply in June, the same month front-line workers warned them of increased overdose deaths.

Hospital medication errors frequent with children Nursing workload, ineffective communication factors in 4 child deaths CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2013 5:21 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18, 2013 ...

To determine the frequency of adverse drug events and the extent of the harm caused by these events, researchers retrospectively reviewed a study on 14,041 medication administrations. The study ...

Calgary Monitoring Alberta's wastewater could help drug users avoid harm. Here's how. The technique first gained traction during the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Monitoring wastewater for viruses works because infected people excrete tiny bits of viral matter; similarly, someone who’s taken a drug expunges biomarkers from their body.

Ontario only recently introduced its own drug monitoring database. This new strategy creates the first pan-Canadian plan to deal with prescription abuse.