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Prescribed medications and the public health : laying the foundation for risk reduction

Title
Prescribed medications and the public health : laying the foundation for risk reduction / William N. Kelly.
Author
Kelly, William N.
Publication
New York : Pharmaceutical Products Press, [2006], ©2006.

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Description
xxi, 355 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Subject
  • Medication abuse
  • Medication abuse > United States
  • Medication Errors > prevention & control
  • Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
  • Health Policy
  • Safety Management > methods
  • Médicaments > Abus
  • Médicaments > Abus > États-Unis
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-346) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. America's drug problems -- Ch. 2. The nature and scope of the medication safety problem -- Ch. 3. How medication harms patients -- Ch. 4. The problem of adverse drug reactions -- Ch. 5. Dangerous allergic drug reactions -- Ch. 6. Are drug interactions really dangerous? -- Ch. 7. The most dangerous drug misadventure -- Ch. 8. Are vaccines safe? -- Ch. 9. Probing the ambulatory frontier -- Ch. 10. The liability for drug injury -- Ch. 11. Assessing the evidence of drug injury -- Ch. 12. Detecting and documenting adverse drug events -- Ch. 13. Investigating, assessing, and reporting adverse drug events -- Ch. 14. Can serious adverse drug events be predicted? -- Ch. 15. Preventing and reducing medication injury -- Ch. 16. What's a patient to do? -- Ch. 17. Developing national and local plans to improve medication safety -- Ch. 18. Improving medication safety : pursuing optimization or perpetuating illusions?
ISBN
  • 0789023601 (hard : alk. paper)
  • 9780789023605 (hard : alk. paper)
  • 078902361X (soft : alk. paper)
  • 9780789023612 (soft : alk. paper)
LCCN
2005029487
OCLC
  • ocm62078280
  • 62078280
  • SCSB-5327101
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries