Topic 11: Improving medication safety

229 Topic 11: Improving medication safety Why focus on medications? Medicines have proven to be verybeneficial for treating illness and preventingdisease. This success has resulted in a dramaticincrease in medication use in recent , this increase in use and expansionof the pharmaceutical industry has also broughtwith it an increase in hazards, error and adverseevents associated with medication use. medication has also become increasinglycomplex: There has been a massive increase in thenumber and variety of medications may have different routes of delivery,variable actions (long acting, short acting) andthere are drugs with the same action andformulation but with different trade names.

† course of prescribed medication not completed; † drug levels not measured, or measured but not checked or acted upon; † communication failures—this is a risk if the care provider changes, for example, if the patient moves from the hospital setting to the

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  Medication, Prescribed, Prescribed medications

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