Sonja Quale

In my previous blog post, I covered the regulatory requirements for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs set forth by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and briefly discussed in the Centers for...

To comply with these new CMS regulations, nursing facilities must adopt an Antibiotic Stewardship Program in conjunction with an Infection Prevention and Control Program, which includes antibiotic use...

For an easier approach, organizations can take several steps to prevent adverse drug events:

Polypharmacy is defined as taking multiple medications for the same condition, taking different medications for multiple conditions (multi-morbidity), or taking more drugs than are medically necessary,...

F-Tag 425 requires that centers’ pharmacy services provide residents the routine and emergency drugs they need, with the overall goal of ensuring the safe and effective use of medications.

Avoiding the administration of unnecessary drugs is critical to maintaining a resident’s highest practicable health and well-being, and the basis of F-329.

A “significant medication error” means one which causes the resident discomfort or jeopardizes his or her health and safety.