Preventing medication errors
By: Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Board on Health Care Services ; Philip Aspden ... [et al.], editors.
Contributors: Aspden, Philip.; Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors.
Series: Quality chasm series
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 463
ISBN-13: 9780309101479; 9780309101479
Subjects: Medication errors -- Prevention; Medication Errors -- prevention & control -- United States; Safety Management -- United States
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Understanding the causes and costs of medication errors. Overview of the drug development, regulation, distribution, and use system; title: Medication errors : incidence and cost; title: Moving toward a patient-centered, integrated medication use system. Action agenda to support consumer-provider partnership; title: Action agenda for health care organizations; title: Action agenda for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and health information technology industries; title: Applied research agenda for safe medication use; title: Action agendas for oversight, regulation  and payment