An institution providing services to both neonatal and adult patients experienced five cases of medication-dispensing errors with look-alike or sound-alike medications. Multidisciplinary collaboration within the system helped the pharmacy identify, resolve, and prevent errors related to medication storage, labeling, delivery, knowledge, and administration documentation.

Background In the United Kingdom, policy change has led to specialist intellectual disability inpatient bed reduction. Little evidence exists assessing the results for patients admitted to such units. This study evaluates the outcomes of a specialist intellectual disability inpatient unit. Method Gender/age/ethnicity/intellectual disability severity/co‐morbid psychiatric/developmental disorders, treatment length and stay data were collected. The health of the nation outcome scales for people with learning disabilities (HoNOS‐LD) scores at admission, treatment completion and discharge were recorded. Analysis of these multiple variables and correlations within different patient groups was investigated using various statistical tests. Results Of 169/176 patients (2010–2018), admission to discharge, HoNOS‐LD global and all individual items score decreased significantly, for all patient categories. Treatment completion to discharge duration was significant for the whole cohort. Conclusions This is the largest study of intellectual disability inpatient outcomes. Discharge from the hospital appears not associated with duration of treatment. Using HoNOS‐LD to demonstrate treatment effectiveness is recommended.

Background Ictal hypoxaemia is a feature seen in epileptic seizures, characterized by low oxygen saturations, increasing seizure prolongation risk and possibly contributing to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). High flow oxygen is recommended in the management of seizures by UK’s National Institute of Health and Care excellence (NICE); however, the evidence supporting this recommendation is unclear. Aims To identify the efficacy of oxygen in the seizure treatment. Method A scoping review was conducted using PRISMA‐ScR guidance. PsycINFO, EMBASE and MEDLINE were searched along with the references section of identified literature. Articles were critically appraised for study, patient, seizure, oxygen therapy and outcome characteristics, summarized and quality‐assessed using Sackett's criteria. Results Literature search identified 623 articles of which five met the pre‐criteria for full review. One animal study demonstrated favourable effects of oxygen administration. Three human studies also reported favourable effects of oxygen administration, while one reported outcomes that were not statistically significant. Study design concerns in all identified literature confounded the ability to assess efficacy. All five publications were assigned Sackett's score of 2b. Conclusion There is a significant lack of evidence to support the efficacy of oxygen administration in epileptic seizures. Future research is needed.