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01.08.2016 | Book review
Safety in medication use
Mary P. Tully and Bryony Dean Franklin: safety in medication use, 2016, CRC Press-Taylor and Francis Group, Boca Raton, USA. ISBN: 978-1-4822-2700-0
verfasst von:
J. W. F. van Mil
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Clinical Pharmacy
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Ausgabe 4/2016
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Excerpt
Over the last decades, medication errors have become an important part of the discussions around medication use processes. This is not only due to a better analysis of the prescribing, dispensing and medicine use process as a result of the report ‘To err is Human’ (2000, Institute of Medicines, USA), but also to the realisation that drug-related problems may prevent optimal outcomes. Traditionally, the focus of most pharmacists is on the prescribing and dispensing process, and this tradition can also be recognised in this book. In fact, the term ‘medication error’ which is defined as preventable harm relating to medication use in clinical practice, is used especially in those settings. The terms drug-related problems and drug therapy problems, especially used when discussing medicine use, are less visible in this book. …