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Preventing medication errors

Title
Preventing medication errors / Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Board on Health Care Services ; Philip Aspden [and others], editors.
Publication
Washington, DC : National Academies Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Aspden, Philip.
  • Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors.
Description
xvi, 463 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
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."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Quality chasm series
Uniform Title
Quality chasm series.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Overview of the drug development, regulation, distribution, and use system -- 3. Medication errors : incidence and cost -- 4. Action agenda to support consumer-provider partnership -- 5. Action agenda for health care organizations -- 6. Action agenda for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and health information technology industries -- 7. Applied research agenda for safe medication use -- 8. Action agendas for oversight, regulation, and payment -- App. A. Biographical sketches of committee members -- App. B. Glossary of terms and acronyms -- App. C. Medication errors : incidence rates -- App. D. Medication errors : prevention strategies.
ISBN
  • 0309101476 (hardcover)
  • 9780309101479 (hardcover)
LCCN
  • 2006029215
  • 9780309101479
OCLC
  • ocm71266476
  • SCSB-5304066
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries