Less medication errors, more cost savings--improve the quality of care by pharmacist cognitive service

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section - Poster Session
• At: Salvadore (Brazil) (2006)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-073
• By: CHAN, Cathleen Yuk-Ying (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taoyuen, China Taiwan)
• Co-author(s): Tsai, Agnes Chun-Yu (Chang Gung Memoruial Hospital, TAOYUEN, China Taiwan)
  Chen, Peggy Hui-Yu (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, TAOYUEN, China Taiwan)
  Tseng, Yen-Min (Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, TAOYUEN, China Taiwan)
  
• Abstract:

  Aims: Cognitive service is a component of pharmaceutical care that primarily focus on optimizing a patient's drug therapy and ensuring appropriateness, safety, and efficacy. Many studies showed that it might reduce the total healthcare costs.
  
  Methods: There were 1602 reported errors collected from October to December of 2005 through the..

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