National Patient Safety Goals
TJC will access if the pharmacy
1) Identify patients correctly
2) Use Medicines safely
3) Prevent Infection
4) Prevents patient falls
5) Identify patient safety risks
What are the National Patient Safety goals?
These documents (2) are included in ALL initial deliveries in the Patient Resource Guide and provides records and pass along correct information about a patient's medicines.
What are Medication profile and Med Guides?
Medication Guides are included with each dispense when The Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 gave FDA the authority to require a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy from manufacturers to ensure that the benefits of a drug or biological product outweigh its risks.
What are REMS drugs? Ex. Tysabri and Gattex
Pharmacists will perform an ongoing, systematic quality-improvement activity constructed to ensure the effective and appropriate use of medicines every 30 days.
What is Drug Utilization Review (DUR)?
Medications that are taken as needed require documentation on the patients med profile.