Presents guidelines for the clinical practice of medicine. This volume offers: recommendations and a proposed framework for strengthening development and use of guidelines; examples; a ready-to-use instrument for assessing the soundness of guidelines; and six case studies exploring issues involved when practitioners use the guidelines.
Part of the "Quality Chasm Series", this book sets forth an agenda for improving the safety of medication use. It provides an overview of the system for drug development, regulation, distribution, and use. It examines the peer-reviewed literature on the incidence and the cost of medication errors and effectiveness of error prevention strategies.