Medication Errors: Causes, Prevention, and Risk Management

The potential for drug misadventures, adverse drug reactions, and medi cation errors is a reality. Every error is potentially tragic and cost ly in both human and economic terms, for patient and professional alik e. Medication Errors is the most comprehensive, authoritative examinat ion of the causes of and means to preventing medication errors ever wr itten. Michael R. Cohen, president of the Institute for Safe Medicatio n Practices, and nearly two dozen other experts on the subject dissect the problem in 20 chapters.