Medication Errors: Understanding the Causes and Designing Effective Risk Management Strategies
Medication Errors: Understanding the Causes and Designing Effective Risk Management Strategies is organized by The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences (GWSMHS).
Course opens: 10/23/2020
Course expires: 10/23/2024
Overview :
The purpose of this module is to engage healthcare providers (prescribers), pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals in evidence-based practices to avoid medication errors and enhance patient safety. Successful attainment of knowledge by the learner will enable improved awareness and lead to changes in clinical practice measures to overcome common causes of medication errors.
Learning Objectives :
Upon completion of this module, the learner should be able to:
• Establish an understanding of contributing factors and epidemiology of medication-related patient safety events
• A discussion on current research on causality (root cause analysis) and human factors design features to mitigate them
• A review of best practice approaches in reducing errors in the inpatient and ambulatory setting (clinic and pharmacy)
• Identify systems-level innovations in risk management strategies that can be used to minimize or prevent medication errors and equip professionals to manage the consequences when they occur
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