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Part II Moving Toward a Patient-Centered, Integrated Medication-Use System
Part II Moving Toward a Patient-Centered, Integrated Medication-Use System
Pages 143-150
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. From this perspective, medication safety becomes everyone's responsibility.
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The health care system should make information available to patients and their families that allows them to make informed decisions when selecting a health plan, hospital, or clinical practice, or choosing among alternative treatments. This should include information describing the system's performance on safety, evidence-based practice, and patient satisfaction.
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Over-the-counter (OTC) drugs and Medications, OTCs, and dietary dietary supplements are not considered supplements are part of the medication medications for purposes of the record and patient care.
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what happened, why, what to expect, and what is being done to prevent a recurrence, as well as a statement of regret or apology. Patients lack mechanisms to report Reporting systems with multiple options medication errors for accountability or capture reports of medication errors from learning purposes.
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Medications are customized to patient needs and values. Medication safety is an individual Medication safety is a system property.
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accessible. The incidence of near-misses, adverse All settings know their specific incidence drug events, and medication errors is of near-misses, adverse drug events, and generally unknown by setting.
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the current legal and claims system fair and just. Some adverse medication events with A concerted effort is made to reduce, miniharm are unavoidable -- "the cost of mize, or mitigate harm by reconsidering doing business." current treatment plans, dosing levels, and/ or use of adjunctive therapy.
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The committee uncovered enormous gaps in the knowledge base regarding medication errors. In Chapter 7, the committee proposes an applied research agenda for the safe use of medications across all care settings, covering research methodologies, incidence rates, costs of medication errors, reporting systems, and testing of error prevention strategies.
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