Prevent medication errors: A new year's resolution: Teaching patients about their medications

Home Healthcare Nurse

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 59-62

  Polzien, Gladys ^a,b  

^a Finlandia University   (United States)

^b Keweenaw Home Nursing and Hospice   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; WARFARIN;

AGED; DRUG THERAPY; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICATION ERROR; NURSING; PATIENT EDUCATION; REVIEW;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; DRUG THERAPY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICATION ERRORS; PATIENT EDUCATION; WARFARIN;

EID: 33846249157     PISSN: 0884741X     EISSN: 15390713     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004045-200701000-00017     Document Type: Article

References (3)

1. Deglin, J. H., &Vallerand, A. H. (2007). Davis's drug guide for nurses (10th ed.). Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Company.
2. Institute of Medicine. (2006, July). Committee on Identifying and Preventing Medication Errors, Institute of Medicine fact sheet. Retrieved August 6, 2006 from http://www.iom.edu
3. Medication errors injure 1.5 million people and cost billions of dollars annually. Retrieved August 14, 2006, from http://www.prweb.com/ releases/2006/8/prweb420241.htm