Charles D Hepler, Richard Segal

Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes

A Management Systems Approach

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drug-related illnesses and complications cost the American health care system billions of dollars each year. 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 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 safety, cost-effectiveness, and quality of medications use from a management systems perspective, and proposes systematic solutions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Seitenzahl: 434
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 154mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 771g
• ISBN-13: 9780849315763
• ISBN-10: 084931576X
• Artikelnr.: 21989472

Autorenporträt

Charles D. Hepler, Richard Segal

Inhaltsangabe

The Second Drug Problem. Morbidity and Mortality from Medication Use.
Understanding Adverse Drug Therapy Outcomes. People and Purpose in
Medication Use. Access, Cost, and Quality Issues in Medication Use.
Prescribing and Prescribing Influence. Medications Use System Performance
Information. Outline of a Medications Use System. Effect of Pharmaceutical
Care Systems on Outcomes and Costs. A Pharmaceutical Care System.
Medications Management System. Managed Care. Managed Care Strategies to
Influence the Cost, Access, and Quality of Medications Use. A Market
Perspective. Finding a Way toward Medicines Use Systems.