Overview
- Provides comprehensive information and a guide on technology for drug safety related issues
- Addresses the challenges of technologies for drug safety
- Describes current achievements of technologies for drug safety practice
Part of the book series: Health Informatics (HI)
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This book presents information about the use of technology to support the prevention and management of drug safety issues: pharmacovigilance (PV), medication errors, drug-related problems (DRPs), counterfeit medicines and other drug safety issues. Adapting new technologies/information technologies, mobile technologies and social media has contributed effectively to safety practices for medications, with this book providing comprehensive information as a guide to its challenges and potential.
Technology for Drug Safety provides practicing and trainee pharmacists, pharmacy technicians, pharmacy educators, researchers, public health policy makers, healthcare professionals and medical educators with vital information about the impact of technology on drug safety-related issues. It describes the current status of the practice, the challenges in the field and recommendations for the effective use of technology in drug safety practice including clinical trials and drug development, PV, detection of adverse drug reactions, reporting and management, medication errors detection, reporting and management, DRPs, counterfeit and substandard medications, and other safety issues.
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Book Title: Technology for Drug Safety
Book Subtitle: Current Status and Future Developments
Authors: Yaser Mohammed Al-Worafi
Series Title: Health Informatics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-34268-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-34267-7Published: 19 July 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-34268-4Published: 18 July 2023
Series ISSN: 1431-1917
Series E-ISSN: 2197-3741
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 202
Topics: Health Informatics, Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, Pharmacology/Toxicology