Medication Errors is the most comprehensive, a01itative examination of the causes of and means to preventing medication errors in print. It helps readers understand the system-based causes of medication errors, including pharmaceutical trademarks, drug packaging and labeling, and error-prone abbreviations and dose expressions, as well as the patients role in preventing medication errors. The book also examines preventing medication errors in relation to specific medications, patients, and conditions; reducing risk and ...
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Medication Errors is the most comprehensive, a01itative examination of the causes of and means to preventing medication errors in print. It helps readers understand the system-based causes of medication errors, including pharmaceutical trademarks, drug packaging and labeling, and error-prone abbreviations and dose expressions, as well as the patients role in preventing medication errors. The book also examines preventing medication errors in relation to specific medications, patients, and conditions; reducing risk and creating a just culture of safety through medication error reporting systems; disclosing medication errors to patients; conducting risk analysis and treatment; and following the clinical bioethics of safe medication practices.
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