Reducing avoidable medication-related harm: what will it take? | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

Reducing avoidable medication-related harm: what will it take? | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published April 2019

Reducing avoidable medication-related harm: what will it take?

Tetteh EK. Res Social Adm Pharm. 2019 Apr 5; [Epub ahead of print].

This commentary introduces the World Health Organization effort to improve medication safety: Medication Without Harm. The author focuses on how strategies and tools, including an intervention framework and guidelines to support safe medication use, can be used in low-resource countries to reduce avoidable harm by 50% in 5 years.

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