Transcription of Topic 11: Improving medication safety - WHO
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Topic 11: Improving medication safety - WHO
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. Although there are better treatments forchronic disease, more patients take multiplemedications and there are more patients withmultiple co-morbidities. This increases thelikelihood of drug interactions, side-effectsand mistakes in administration.
231 Topic 11: Improving medication safety one doctor may prescribe a medication, a nurse will administer the medication and a different …
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