Prescribed Medications and the Public Health: Laying the Foundation for Risk Reduction

by William N. Kelly

An alarming look at America's other drug problem--medication safety Drug misadventures are an all-too-frequent and deadly cause of adverse medical events. Prescribed Medications and the Public Health: Laying the Foundation for Risk Reduction explores ways to combat the widespread problem of adverse drug events (ADEs). This comprehensive book shows how our broken health care and medication use system often inflicts harm--most of it preventable--on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078902361X
• ISBN13: 9780789023612
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: CRC Press
• Length: 355 Pages
• Weight: 1.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.3"