| Description |
xvi, 463 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Quality chasm series |
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Quality chasm series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Form |
Also issued online. |
| Summary |
"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 data that will foster the reduction of medication errors, the book provides action agendas detailing the measures needed to improve the safety of medication use in both the short- and long-term. Patients, primary health care providers, health care organizations, purchasers of group health care, legislators, and those affiliated with providing medications and medication-related products and services will benefit from this guide to reducing medication errors."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Medication errors -- Prevention.
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Medication Errors -- prevention & control.
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Safety Management.
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United States.
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Medication errors -- Prevention.
(OCoLC)fst01014863
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Fouten.
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Geneeskunde.
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| Added Author |
Aspden, Philip.
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Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors.
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| ISBN |
0309101476 (hardcover) |
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9780309101479 (hardcover) |
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