Table of Contents: Preventing medication errors /

Corporate Author:	Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors.
Other Authors:	Aspden, Philip.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : National Academies Press, ©2007.
Series:	Quality chasm series
Subjects:	Medication errors > Prevention. Medication Errors > prevention & control. Drugs. MEDICAL > Pharmacology. United States.
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=186010

Table of Contents:

Understanding the causes and costs of medication errors. Overview of the drug development, regulation, distribution, and use system
Medication errors : incidence and cost
Moving toward a patient-centered, integrated medication use system. Action agenda to support consumer-provider partnership
Action agenda for health care organizations
Action agenda for the pharmaceutical, medical device, and health information technology industries
Applied research agenda for safe medication use
Action agendas for oversight, regulation and payment.