Patients who had their medications electronically reconciled reported a greater understanding of the medications they were to take after discharge from the hospital, including medication administration instructions and potential adverse effects.

RPhs committed the fewest discrepancies compared with RNs and CPhTs, resulting in more accurate medication histories and reconciliation. RPh involvement also prevented the greatest number of medication errors, contributing to considerable pADE-related cost savings.

In a sample of hospitalized patients, CNS agents were significantly associated with falls.

A 360-bp fragment of the Trichodesmium thiebautii glutamine synthetase gene (@A) was amplified from DNA isolated from oceanic populations of this ecologically important, diazotrophic cyanobacterium. The cloned fragment showed high homology to the type 1 glutamine synthetase (GS) enzymes of other cyanobacteria and was used to probe the in situ, temporal variability in transcription of Trichodesmium GS. Three distinct phases in the die1 pattern of &A mRNA abundance were observed. These appear to be correlated with the temporal variability in carbon and nitrogen fixation rates and the effect that these physiological processes have on the size of cellular pools of the primary end-products of N assimilation. Our data show that Trichodesntium rhiebautii GS is regulated at the level of transcription and support the hypothesis that GS expression in this organism is subject to similar controls as those established for heterocyst-forming cyanobacteria.