Prescribed medications and the public health
Subtitle: laying the foundation for risk reduction
By: William N. Kelly.
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Products Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 355
ISBN-13: 9780789023605; 9780789023612
Subjects: Medication abuse.; Medication abuse -- United States.; Medication Errors -- prevention & control -- United States.; Drug Therapy -- adverse effects -- United States.; Health Policy -- United States.; Safety Management -- methods -- United States.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: America's drug problems; title: The nature and scope of the medication safety problem; title: How medication harms patients; title: The problem of adverse drug reactions; title: Dangerous allergic drug reactions; title: Are drug interactions really dangerous?; title: The most dangerous drug misadventure; title: Are vaccines safe?; title: Probing the ambulatory frontier; title: The liability for drug injury; title: Assessing the evidence of drug injury; title: Detecting and documenting adverse drug events; title: Investigating, assessing, and reporting adverse drug events; title: Can serious adverse effects of medication be predicted?; title: Preventing and reducing medication injury; title: What's a patient to do?; title: Developing national and local plans to improve medication safety; title: Improving medication safety: pursuing optimization or perpetuating illusions?.