Standardized Safety Programme in Community Pharmacy

[摘要] Pharmaceutical errors are avoidable events that can result in incorrect medication use or patient harm. Approximately one-quarter of allpharmaceutical errors resulting in patient harm occur in community pharmacies in North America. Common medication errors involvedelivering the erroneous drug, concentration, or quantity as a result of a variety of environmental and drug-related issues such as prescriptionerrors, personnel shortages, and drugs with similar names or packaging. Medication errors are expected to cost $2.6 billion per year inCanada, with additional expenditures incurred owing to lost productivity and time away from work.

[学科分类] 药理学