Drug shortages are persistent and serious in the US, affecting care quality and costs. An early warning system could help.

Reliable supply of quality-assured medicines is hard to maintain in refugee camps in low- and middle-income countries with conflict zones.

International medicine importation raises ethics and safety questions that should be considered when weighing affordability against risk of harm.

Pharmacists can help limit the threats drug shortages pose to patients.

This article canvasses extant literature on values, evidence, and standards for inpatient psychiatry units’ design.

This theme issue investigates What should a psychiatric care site look like?

Paternalistic language in patients’ health records is of specific ethical concern because it emphasizes clinicians’ power and patients’ vulnerabilities and can be demeaning and traumatizing.

Is intention the same as design?

Iatrogenic harms of so-called “zero-risk” approaches must be balanced against promoting patients’ goals of care.

Inpatient psychiatric units should be therapeutic environments that support dignity and recovery.