Nursing home residents in Arizona are often prescribed multiple medications. For patient safety, it is critical that nursing home workers review the medications that patients are taking in order to prevent adverse drug events. This review process, referred to as medication reconciliation, may be done best by a registered nurse.
Endometriosis is a condition of the female reproduction system in which the endometrium begins to grow outside of the uterus. Arizona women should be aware that identifying endometriosis can be difficult. The symptoms of the condition are inconstant, can vary widely and can be mistaken as symptoms of other types of diseases.
The gender of primary care physicians for elderly Arizona hospital patients could influence the likelihood of death or hospital readmission. A research team from Harvard analyzed the Medicare records of over 1.5 million patients age 65 and older. The data for people receiving non-surgical care revealed that 11.49 percent of people cared for by male physicians died within one month of treatment.
An MRI scan following a mid-pregnancy ultrasound could help doctors in Arizona and around the world diagnose a potential fetal brain abnormality, according to British researchers. Their study, which was conducted at the University of Sheffield, was published in The Lancet on Dec.
Many people in Arizona and throughout the country are diagnosed with allergies to penicillin when they are children. When they later develop infections as adults, they may be prescribed other antibiotics that carry more serious side effects than penicillin does because their medical records reflect the penicillin allergies.
