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Research Spotlight: Researchers find that adverse drug events are frequent and many are preventable in the outpatient setting

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM Rachel L. Wasserman, PharmD, of the Department of General Internal Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is the lead author and David W. Bates, MD, medical director of Clinical and Quality Analysis for Mass General Brigham and Co-Director of the Center for Artificial Intelligence and BioInformatics for Mass General Brigham, is the...

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Ibuprofen and other NSAIDs superior to codeine for managing outpatient postoperative pain

CANADIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION JOURNAL Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as ibuprofen provide better pain control and have fewer adverse effects than codeine, a commonly prescribed opioid, when prescribed after outpatient surgery, according to new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal). “In all surgery types, subgroups and outcome time points, NSAIDs were equal or...