MEDICATION ERRORS This title has been archived.

Author: Michael Cohen, RPh, MS, ScD,
Publisher: American Pharmacists Association
Publication Date: 2007
ISBN 10: 1582120927
ISBN 13: 9781582120928
Edition: 2nd

Description:

In the second, expanded edition of the acclaimed Medication Errors, Michael R. Cohen, brings together some 30 experts from medicine, nursing, risk management to provide the best, most current thinking about medication errors. Their contributions make this the most comprehensive, authoritative examination in print of the causes of medication errors and strategies to prevent them. Medication Errors provides the health care community—acute care, long-term care, ambulatory care, the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory affairs, and academia—with practical guidance to make patients who take or receive medication safer.

Table of Contents

Front Matter

PART I PREPARING FOR ACTION

PART II UNDERSTANDING THE CAUSES OF MEDICATION ERRORS

PART III PREVENTING MEDICATION ERRORS: A SHARED RESPONSIBILITY

PART IV PREVENTING MEDICATION ERRORS: SPECIFIC MEDICATIONS, PATIENTS, AND CONDITIONS

PART V REDUCING RISKS AND CREATING A JUST CULTURE OF SAFETY