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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Towards safer drug prescribing, dispensing and administration in hospitals |
Author: | Thornton, P. Simon, S. Mathew, T. |
Citation: | Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice, 1999; 19(1):41-45 |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Issue Date: | 1999 |
ISSN: | 1320-5455 1440-1762 |
Statement of Responsibility: | PD Thornton, S Simon, TH Mathew |
Abstract: | A multidisciplinary workshop was held in order to identify strategies likely to produce a reduction in adverse drug events, by targeting hospital systems involved in drug prescribing, dispensing and administration. Strategies identified at the workshop included: (i) improving the education and practice development of medical and nursing staff, concerning drug therapy and safe prescribing principles; (ii) introducing and using information technology and electronic prescribing processes; (iii) implementing the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council (APAC) national guidelines to achieve the continuum of quality use of medicines between hospitals and the community; (iv) enhancing the importance of medication history taking as a routine part of the admission process; (v) instituting individual patient supply as the standard method of drug distribution in hospitals; and (vi) stimulating the hospital-based clinical pharmacy workforce. |
Keywords: | Adverse drug events; medication errors; quality use of medications |
Rights: | Copyright of Journal of Quality in Clinical Practice is the property of Wiley-Blackwell |
DOI: | 10.1046/j.1440-1762.1999.00290.x |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1440-1762.1999.00290.x |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Medicine publications |
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