| Medication Errors, 2nd Edition |
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| ISBN: |
9781582120928 |
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| ISBN-10: |
1582120927 |
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| Copyright: |
2007 |
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| Edition: |
2nd |
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| Editor: |
Cohen,
Michael R. |
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Doody's Expert Review
 Score: 98 |
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| Doody's Star Rating™ and Doody's Expert Review provide by Doody Enterprises, Inc. |
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Reviewer:
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Thomas Jacobsen,
PharmD, MS, RPh, FASCP
(ViroPharma Incorporated)
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Description
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| This is the second edition of Medication Errors published by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA). |
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Purpose
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| The purpose is to provide guidance on how to make medications safer. |
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Audience
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| This book is written for those in an industry, retail, hospital, academia or other setting which involves medication usage. The editor is a nationally known expert on medication errors and is president of the Institute of Safe Medication Practices. |
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Features
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| This comprehensive book is unique to the field of pharmacy. It provides insights into the causes of dispensing and prescribing medication errors. The editor and contributing authors use actual examples and photos which depict how errors can be easily made if caution is not exercised. Of particular use are the numerous tables, color plates, and figures. A detailed chapter on "high alert" medications is a must-read chapter for anyone involved in medication prescribing or dispensing. |
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Assessment
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| This book is unique in the field. It should be a mandatory read for all pharmacy students and is certainly a valuable addition to any academic, industrial, or personal library. |
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