Preventing Medication Errors and Improving Drug Therapy Outcomes: A Management Systems Approach

Why medicines often fail to produce the desired result and how such failures can be avoided

How to think about drug product safety and effectiveness

How the main participants in a medications use system can improve outcomes and how professional and personal values, attitudes, and ethical reasoning fit into drug therapy

What a properly designed and managed medications use system would look like — specific components, how the components fit together into a sy...