May 2007: Second Edition of ‘Medication Errors’ Textbook Now Available
The expanded 600+ page book, edited by Michael R. Cohen, president of ISMP, brings together experts from pharmacy, medicine, nursing, and risk management to provide the most current thinking about why medication errors happen and strategies to prevent them.Highlights include:
- In-depth analyses of prescribing, dispensing, drug administration, and drug delivery device errors, using examples of actual errors for illustration.
- Detailed discussion of error-prone processes and high-risk patient populations, including chemotherapy, pediatrics, and immunology.
- A comprehensive chapter on “high-alert” medications with precautions that should be taken to avoid mishaps with this category of medications.
- Seven new chapters covering root cause analysis, error-prone abbreviations, drug delivery devices, technology, disclosure of errors, clinical bioethics of safe medication practices, and managing risks through a culture of safety.
To place an order, please visit: www.ismp.org/products/medErrsEd2/default.asp
