Medicines errors
May 27, 2013
THE European Medicines
Agency has issued six key
recommendations to tackle the
issue of medication errors, as part
of a full action plan to be released
by the end of the year.
The move follows a workshop
which looked at “the single most
common preventable cause of
adverse events” in the EU.
The EMA has recommended
the harmonisation and further
development of terminologies,
establishing collaboration
between patient safety
authorities and regulators, data
pooling and analysis to find
new ways of identifying errors,
the systematic assessment of
errors during the life-cycle of a
medicine, active engagement
with patients, consumers and
health professionals, and support
of research into safe practices.
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