Preventing medication errors /

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"Preventing Medication Errors begins by providing an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. It also examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and the effectiveness of error prevention strategies. Presenting...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Corporate Author: Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors
Other Authors: Aspden, Philip
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2007.
Series:Quality chasm series.
Subjects:
Medication errors > Prevention.
Medication Errors > prevention & control
Safety Management
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Medication errors > Prevention
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the causes and costs of medication errors. Overview of the drug development, regulation, distribution, and use system
  • Medication errors : incidence and cost
  • Moving toward a patient-centered, integrated medication use system. Action agenda to support consumer-provider partnership-- Action agenda for health care organizations
  • Action agenda for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and health information technology industries
  • Applied research agenda for safe medication use
  • Action agendas for oversight, regulation and payment.

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