Improving medication safety in varied health systems

Improving Medication Safety in Health Systems through Innovations in Automation Technology

Improving patient safety by improving medication communication.

Any time that information about a patient's medication is communicated, there is a potential for error that occurs because of misinterpretation of abbreviations, acronyms, and dose designations. In the following discussion, corrective approaches for reducing the use of error-prone terms will be reviewed. Terms on the "Do Not Use" list are identified and the rationale for using "Tall Man" letter...

Building a safer NHS for patients IMPROVING MEDICATION SAFETY Building a safer NHS for patients IMPROVING MEDICATION SAFETY

medication safety in iran

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Systems Approach and Systems Engineering Applied to Health Care: Improving Patient Safety and Health Care Delivery

354 INTRODUCTION The delivery of safe and high-quality health care has reached a crisis in the United States in terms of personal loss due to preventable errors, as well as economic loss. Estimates of the economic costs in the intensive care unit (ICU), which represents just a portion of the health care system at large, approach nearly 1% of the gross domestic product.1 A natural impulse to add...