Detection and prevention of adverse drug events [electronic resource] : information technologies and human factors / edited by Régis Beuscart, Werner Hackl, and Christian Nøhr.

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ISBN:

9781607504559

Title:

Detection and prevention of adverse drug events [electronic resource] : information technologies and human factors / edited by Régis Beuscart, Werner Hackl, and Christian Nøhr.

Author:

Beuscart, Régis.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 225 pages) : illustrations.

Series:

Studies in health technology and informatics ; v. 148

Contents:

Title page; Preface; Contents; Part A. Keynotes on Patient Safety; Measuring Patient Safety: The Need for Prospective Detection of Adverse Events; The Impact of Commercial Electronic Medication Management Systems on Errors and Clinicians' Work in Hospitals; Patient Safety Through Intelligent Procedures in Medication: The PSIP Project; Human Factors Engineering for Computer-Supported Identification and Prevention of Adverse Drug Events; Decision Support to Avoid Medication Errors . How Far Have We Come in Denmark and What Are the Present Challenges.

ReMINE: An Ontology-Based Risk Management PlatformThe EU-ADR Project: Preliminary Results and Perspective; DebugIT: Building a European Distributed Clinical Data Mining Network to Foster the Fight Against Microbial Diseases; Part B. Detection and Prevention of Adverse Drug Events; Detection of Adverse Drug Events: Proposal of a Data Model; Detection of Adverse Drug Events Detection: Data Agregation and Data Mining; The Expert Explorer: A Tool for Hospit.

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Subject Term:

Patients -- Safety measures -- Congresses.

Medication errors -- Prevention -- Congresses.

Medical errors -- Prevention -- Congresses.

Added Author:

Beuscart, Régis.

Hackl, Werner, 1976-

Nøhr, Christian.

Format:

Electronic Resources

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Publication Date:

2009

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Summary

When someone enters hospital for examination or treatment, is given a doctor's prescription, receives medication from a pharmacist or has his drugs administered by a nurse, he assumes that his health and welfare will benefit from this medical intervention. But the effectiveness of available therapies should also be viewed from the perspective of potentially negative consequences: adverse drug events (ADE). ADEs endanger patients' safety and increase hospital costs, making reduction of preventable ADEs a crucial and challenging Public Health issue. This book presents papers from the workshop "Patient Safety through Intelligent Procedures in medication" focusing on the following topics: the identification of ADE and medication errors in hospital settings; the role of human and organisational factors on ADE and medication errors; Information and Communication Technologies to prevent or correct ADEs and medication errors. The papers in this book are the work of active scientific experts in the field and confront ideas and experiences arising worldwide, and in particular from several EU projects directed at resolving ADE problems. Here is an opportunity to find common ways for solving shared difficulties and make improvements happen.