Friday, August 04, 2006

Testing for ADHD: Read His Lips

"To date, no neuropsychological tests can reliably identify ADHD."

—Craig B.H. Surman, MD, Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Scientific Coordinator, Adult ADHD Research Program, Massachusetts General Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Posted 8/2/2006, on Medscape.com

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Antipsychotics Rx Errors

"Medication errors can result either from a prescribing error or a dispensing error or a combination of both. A new study by a group of British pharmacists suggests that in psychiatry, prescribing errors are fairly common."

"Overall, Taylor and his colleagues concluded, 'pharmacy staff detected on average one prescribing error for every 42 prescriptions checked.'… 'most errors were of doubtful or minor importance, but' 1 in 33 errors was deemed likely to result in serious effects or death."

—by Jim Rosack, "Antipsychotics Prone to Prescribing Errors," July 21, 2006, Psychiatric News, Vol. 41, #14, p.8