Physician Focus, September 2007: Preventing Medication Errors
Americans spend billions of dollars every year on prescription drugs, over-the-counter medications, weight-loss products, vitamins and herbal supplements.
The explosive use of these products means there is plenty of room for error, and medication errors have become far too common and costly in today's health care system. The Institute of Medicine's landmark report, Preventing Medication Errors pointed out that medication errors injure an estimated 1.5 million people each year in the U.S.
What are the roles of the physician, the patient, the pharmacist in medication safety? And what can hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, and other health care organizations do to reduce such preventable errors?
Progam Host: John A. Fromson, MD, Chair of Psychiatry, MetroWest Medical Center , and Past President, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors
Guest: Ronald B. Goodspeed, MD, MPH, President, Massachusetts Coalition for the Prevention of Medical Errors, and President & CEO, Southcoast Hospitals Group.
Co-produced with Hopkinton Community Access Television, HCAM-TV, Hopkinton Mass.
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