Preventing Medication Errors

In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, aseries of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation''s quality ofhealth care. Preventing Medication Errors is the newest volume in the series.Responding to the key messages in earlier volumes of the series—To Err IsHuman (2000), Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), and Patient Safety(2004)—this book sets forth an agend...