Purpose The goal of medication therapy is the achievement of defined therapeutic outcomes
that improve a patient's quality of life while minimizing patient risk. 1 There are inherent risks …

The Management of medication (MOM) is an important patient safety initiative at a hospital.
All NABH (National accreditation board for Hospital and Healthcare Providers) accredited …

Patient safety is the number one goal of every health care organization. One of the major
threats to patient safety in the acute care environment is medication error. Nursing is …

Background Very limited data have been published about the design of medication safety
programmes in hospitals. Objective To describe a template for the structure and operation of …

The next several Director's Forum articles will focus on core practices or competencies in
hospital pharmacy practice. This series of articles will discuss the key fundamentals …