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Preventing medication errors [electronic resource]

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Title Preventing medication errors [electronic resource] / Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Board on Health Care Services
Philip Aspden ... [et al.], editors.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher Washington, DC : National Academies Press
Creation Date c2006
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content ""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""
Series Quality chasm series
Extent 1 online resource (480 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010713654805171
MARC RECORDS
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