Associate Professor Sandra L. Kane-Gill , PharmD, MS, FCCM, FCCP  led a task force of patient safety experts to complete the first safe medication use clinical practice guidelines for critically ill patients. The guidelines were published in the September issue of Critical Care Medicine. The authors developed Population, Intervention, Comparator, Outcome (PICO) questions and quality of evidence statements pertaining to medication errors and adverse drug events based on three key components: 1) environment and the patient; 2) medication use process; and 3) patient safety surveillance system.

The critically ill population is particularly vulnerable to medication errors and adverse drug events. These clinical practice guidelines provide recommendations to improve medication safety in this population.

 

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