Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes pdf

Author: Charles D. Hepler
Edition: 1
Publisher: CRC Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 084931576X

Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes: A Management Systems Approach

Read this book in order to learn:

Why medicines often fail to produce the desired result and how such failures can be avoided

How to think about drug product safety and effectiveness

How the main participants in a medications use system can improve outcomes and how professional and personal values, attitudes, and ethical reasoning fit into drug therapy

What a properly designed and managed medications use system would look like — specific components, how the components fit together into a system, and how the system can be maintained and improved

Ways to evaluate medications use systems, how to recognize ineffective systems operations, how to identify missing system components and how to correct them

How the environment of medications use affects systems operations and patient outcomes, and why standards must change to improve drug safety and effectiveness

Drug-related illnesses and complications cost the health care system billions of dollars each year. Medical books Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes. Medical books Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes by. Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes by Hepler, Charles D./ Segal, Richard/ Segal, Richard [Hardcover]

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Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes by Hepler, Charles D./ Segal, Richard/ Segal, Richard [Hardcover]

Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes: A Management Systems Approach, ISBN-13: 9780849315763, ISBN-10: 084931576X

author charles d hepler author richard segal format hardback language english publication year 25 02 2003 subject medicine subject 2 clinical medicine professional title preventing medication errors and improving drug therapy outcomes a management systems approach author hepler charles d segal richard publisher crc pr i llc publication date mar 01 2003 pages 434 binding hardcover edition 1 st dimensions 6 25 wx 9 50 hx 1 00 d isbn 084931576 x subject medical pharmacy description drawing on res

Drug-related illnesses and complications cost the American health care system billions of dollars each year. Medical errors account for approximately 100000 deaths each year and drugs are the most common cause of medical errors in hospitals. Synthesizing research studies from seven nations Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes A Management Systems Approach identifies pharmacists as a strategic resource in solving the problem of preventable adverse outcomes from drug therapy. It identifies and describes the preventable adverse outcomes of drug therapy explores the saf

Medical Book Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes

Medical errors account for approximately 100,000 deaths each year, and drugs are the most common cause of medical errors in hospitals. Synthesizing research studies from seven nations, Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes: A Management Systems Approach explores medications use from a social perspective. It identifies and describes the preventable adverse outcomes of drug therapy, discusses the safety, cost-effectiveness, and quality of medications use from a management systems perspective, and proposes systematic solutions.