Medication Without Harm: WHO's Third Global Patient Safety Challenge

• Published in: The Lancet (British edition) Vol. 389; no. 10080; pp. 1680 - 1681
• Main Authors: Donaldson, Liam J, Kelley, Edward T, Dhingra-Kumar, Neelam, Kieny, Marie-Paule, Sheikh, Aziz
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Elsevier Ltd 29.04.2017; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Design improvements; Drug administration; Drugs; Global health; Health; Health care; Health care industry; Health Promotion - organization & administration; Humans; Internal Medicine; International Cooperation; Labeling; Leadership; Medical errors; Medication Errors - prevention & control; Packaging design; Patient Safety; Patients; Priorities; Regulatory agencies; Safety; World Health Organization; Germany
• ISSN: 0140-6736; 1474-547X; 1474-547X
• DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(17)31047-4

[...]health ministries will be invited to convene experts in their countries to design specific programmes of action for improving safety in each of four domains in which a medications can cause inadvertant harm: health care professionals' behaviour; systems and practices of medication; medicines; patients and the public. [...]WHO will use its global convening and advocacy role to pursue successful outcomes in a range of areas, including: strengthening the quality of data to monitor medication-related harm; providing guidance and developing strategies, plans, and tools to ensure that the medication process has the safety of patients at its core in all health-care settings; producing a strategy for setting out research priorities; monitoring and evaluating the impact of the challenge; continuing to engage with regulatory agencies and international actors to improve medication safety through improved packaging and labelling; and designing tools and technologies that empower patients to safely manage their own medications. 2 MA Safren, A Chapanis, A critical incident study of hospital medication errors, Hospitals, Vol. 34, Iss. 53, 1960, 65-66, 68 3 B Allegranzi, J Storr, G Dziekan, The first global patient safety challenge “Clean care is safer care”: from launch to current progress and achievements, J Hosp Infect, Vol. 65,...