Preventing Medication Errors (Quality Chasm) - Hardcover

Institute Of Medicine; Board On Health Care Services; Committee On Identifying And Preventing Medication Errors

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0309101476 ISBN 13: 9780309101479

Publisher: National Academies Press, 2006

Synopsis

In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nationa (TM)s quality of health care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newest volume in the series. Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the seriesa "To Err Is Human (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety (2004)a "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. 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. 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.

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About the Author

Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Philip Aspden, Julie Wolcott, J. Lyle Bootman, Linda R. Cronenwett, Editors

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309101476
• ISBN 13: 9780309101479
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 480
• Editor: Cronenwett Linda R., Bootman J. Lyle, Wolcott Julie, Aspden Philip