A Series on Medication Safety in the United States: Effective Strategies to Enhance Safety

HMP Global July 6, 2022
Mark Munger, PharmD, FCCP, FACC, FHFSA

In the second installment of this series, Dr Munger shares strategies for providers and health systems to improve medication safety.

Change is needed to address medication safety across the US health care system.

Assigning the responsibility of medication safety to a core clinician group would create a bridge between providers and the drug distribution system.¹ The core clinician group should be responsible for the oversight of starting, monitoring, and discontinuing medications, in collaboration with the primary prescriber, across the health care system.^1-3

This core clinician group should be pharmacists with expertise in medication management and patient access. This group should also be armed with a recent patient-identified medication reconciliation profile, as well as artificial intelligence that evaluates the...

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