AEGiS-CATIE: TESTING: Patients in hospitals may not get their medicine

TESTING: Patients in hospitals may not get their medicine

TreatmentUpdate 72, Vol. 8, No. 8; October 1996
Sean Hosein

Study Details

Another American team in Chicago conducted a study on 18 PHAs in the AIDS ward of a hospital to find out if they received their medicine as prescribed by the hospital's doctors. The doctors found, on average, that in 20% of cases:

* some patients received too little medicine

* others received too much

In cases where intravenous antibiotics, antifungals and antivirals were prescribed, an average of 26% of patients did not receive the dose prescribed by their doctors.

REFERENCES:

1. Max BE, Itokazu G, Danziger LH, et al . Do hospitalized patients receive their prescribed medications? Abstract N010.

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