Preventing Medication Errors: Quality Chasm Series
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (907 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0309101476 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 480 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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Preventing Medication Errors also examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and the effectiveness of error prevention strategies. In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation’s quality of health care. 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.. Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the seriesâ€"To Err Is Human (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety (2004)â€"this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It begins by providing an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. 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. Preventing Medication Errors i
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Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett, Editors . Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J
Lyle Bootman, Linda R. About the Author Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Cronenwett, Editors