Reducing avoidable medication-related harm: What will it take?

dc.contributor.authorTetteh, E.K.
dc.date.accessioned2019-06-06T12:48:46Z
dc.date.available2019-06-06T12:48:46Z
dc.date.issued2019-04
dc.description.abstractConsumption of quality-assured medicines is expected to maintain or improve population health. Yet in a number of situations, what is realized is lower health benefits or magnified safety risks. Recognizing the public health implications of safety risks or medication-related harm, and that some types of harm are avoidable, the World Health Organization has initiated the third Global Patient Safety challenge on Medication Safety. Under the term “Medication Without Harm”, this Challenge aims to assess the scope and nature of avoidable medication-related harm, create a framework for intervention and develop national guidance and tools to support safer medication use. The global target under the Challenge is to reduce the level of severe avoidable medication-related harm by 50% over a five-year period or within the next five years. Given a higher morbidity and mortality due to medication-related harm in low-income countries, this paper evaluates what needs to be done in low-income countries in order to achieve the global target. The ideal solution advocated requires that health planners in each low-income country determine what fraction of safety risks or harm can be prevented; and the relationship between number or frequency of avoidable harm or safety risks and the resource costs of treatment or prevention. In the absence of such information, this paper discusses a number of prevention strategies that might help; arguing that the period over which avoidable medication-related harm can be reduced by 50% will depend on whether significant continuous investments in health-system strengthening are made prior to and within that period.en_US
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.sapharm.2019.04.002
dc.identifier.urihttp://ugspace.ug.edu.gh/handle/123456789/30534
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherResearch in Social and Administrative Pharmacyen_US
dc.subjectAdverse drug eventsen_US
dc.subjectMedication errorsen_US
dc.subjectMedicine useen_US
dc.subjectQuality assuranceen_US
dc.subjectRegulationen_US
dc.subjectSafetyen_US
dc.titleReducing avoidable medication-related harm: What will it take?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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