Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-346) and index.
Contents:
America's drug problems -- The nature and scope of the medication safety problem -- How medication harms patients -- The problem of adverse drug reactions -- Dangerous allergic drug reactions -- Are drug interactions really dangerous? -- The most dangerous drug misadventure -- Are vaccines safe? -- Probing the ambulatory frontier -- The liability for drug injury -- Assessing the evidence of drug injury -- Detecting and documenting adverse drug events -- Investigating, assessing, and reporting adverse drug events -- Can serious adverse drug events be predicted? -- Preventing and reducing medication injury -- What's a patient to do? -- Developing national and local plans to improve medication safety -- Improving medication safety: pursuing optimization or perpetuating illusions?
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