implications of med safety

Question 1

what are the 3 implications

Answer 1

• Patient involvement
• Designing systems and procedures
• Drug design and formulation

Question 2

what can we learn about drug design and formulation

Answer 2

– How can we make products easier to use?
– How can we “make it easy to do the right
thing?”
* Packaging and labelling
– How can we make it easier to distinguish
different products?
– How can we label products clearly?

Question 3

what do we learn about designing systems and procedures

Answer 3

– Safe
– Practical – avoiding temptation to develop
workarounds
* Communication skills
– Healthcare professionals
– Patients
– Written and verbal information

Question 4

what we learn about patient involvement

Answer 4

How can we best involve patients and carers
as active partners?

Question 5

what do we learn about pharmacovigilance and error reporting

Answer 5

Knowing how to report incidents to allow
others to learn from them
* Learning from incidents
– How can we learn from the past?