Focus on safe medication practices
By: Melanie J. Rantucci, Christine Stewart, Ian Stewart.
Contributors: Stewart, Christine, RPh.; Stewart, Ian, RPh.
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Health
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9780781770781
Subjects: Medication errors -- Prevention; Medication Errors -- prevention & control; Pharmaceutical Preparations -- adverse effects; Pharmaceutical Services -- organization & administration; Risk Management -- organization & administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining the issues; title: Why medication incidents occur; title: Prevention of medication incidents: risk management to improve patient safety; title: Common causes of medication incidents and prevention strategies; title: Underlying root causes and prevention strategies; title: Causes and preventive strategies in specialty practices; title: Technological solutions promoting safe medication practices; title: Dealing with medication incidents in pharmacy; title: Instituting safe medication practices in pharmacy.