We know that medicines constitute an essential part of healthcare delivery and help to either prevent or treat illness, influence quality of life, and generally increase life expectancy. However, medications can also cause harm if prescribed irrationally and either dispensed or used incorrectly, and either monitored or followed up insufficiently.
In the anthology “Medication Safety in Municipal Health and Care Services”, Prof. Anne Gerd Granås, Dr. Alma Mulac, and Dr. Anette Vik Jøsendal contributed to three of 17 chapters. The authors hope that the anthology will increase the awareness of a number of initiatives and strategies that can improve patient safety related to medications in municipal health and care services. The aim is to create a basis for further research to promote safe medication management and rational use of medicines.
This anthology is of interest to anyone involved in or concerned with medication safety, primarily healthcare professionals, academic staff, researchers, policymakers, and managers in healthcare services. It is edited by Rose Mari Olsen and Hege Sletvold.
The printed version is available as print-on-demand for NOK 498,-. The complete text book is available as a free digital download here.
We encourage you to share this link with anybody interested in medication safety, be it healthcare professionals, academic staff, researchers, policymakers, and managers in healthcare services.
Please click on the hyperlinks to download and read the chapters the three PharmaSafe members contributed to.
Chapter 7: Detecting Medication Errors and Adverse Drug Events: A Review of Current Methodologies. Alma Mulac and Anne Gerd Granås.
Chapter 10: Patient-Centered Communication and Counseling to Ensure Patient Safety Through Correct Use of Medicines: Experiences and Challenges. Tonje Krogstad, Rønnaug Larsen, Lene Berge Holm, Cecilie Johannessen Landmark, and Anne Gerd Granås
Chapter 15: Multidose Drug Dispensing in Primary Care: A Review of the Literature. Anette Vik Jøsendal, Trine Strand Bergmo, Anne Gerd Granås