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Pages: 244
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In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published its landmark report, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System, in which it stated that nearly 98,000 people
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Language: en
Pages: 481
Authors: Institute of Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-11 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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In 1996 the Institute of Medicine launched the Quality Chasm Series, a series of reports focused on assessing and improving the nation's quality of health care.
Standardizing Medication Labels
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Institute of Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-15 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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Medications are an important component of health care, but each year their misuse results in over a million adverse drug events that lead to office and emergenc
The Nurse's Role in Medication Safety
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Pages: 179
Authors: Laura Cima
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Written especially for nurses in all disciplines and health care settings, this second edition of The Nurses's Role in Medication Safety focuses on the hands-on
Health Literacy
Language: en
Pages: 130
Authors: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-08-06 - Publisher: National Academies Press

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In 2004, the Institute of Medicine released Health Literacy: A Prescription to End Confusion, a report on the then-underappreciated challenge of enabling patien