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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777866703321

Titolo

Preventing medication errors [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Board on Health Care Services ; Philip Aspden ... [et al.], editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : National Academies Press, c2006

ISBN

0-309-13373-4

1-280-74234-8

9786610742349

0-309-65856-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 p.)

Collana

Quality chasm series

Altri autori (Persone)

AspdenPhilip

Disciplina

615/.6

Soggetti

Medication errors - Prevention

Drugs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Reviewers""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Part I Understanding the Causes and Costs of Medication Errors""; ""2 Overview of the Drug Development, Regulation, Distribution, and Use System""; ""3 Medication Errors: Incidence and Cost""; ""Part II Moving Toward a Patient-Centered, Integrated Medication-Use System""; ""4 Action Agenda to Support the Consumer Provider Partnership""; ""5 Action Agenda for Health Care Organizations""

""6 Action Agenda for the Pharmaceutical, Medical Device, and Health Information Technology Industries""""7 Applied Research Agenda for Safe Medication Use""; ""8 Action Agendas for Oversight, Regulation, and Payment""; ""APPENDIXES""; ""A Biographical Sketches of Committee Members""; ""B Glossary of Terms and Acronyms""; ""C Medication Errors: Incidence Rates""; ""D Medication Errors: Prevention Strategies""; ""Index""