Medication safety

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Medication safety spans systematic risk reduction across several dimensions - causality assessment when an adverse reaction is suspected (Naranjo scale), system-level error prevention, polypharmacy/prescribing cascade recognition and deprescribing, special population prescribing (renal/hepatic impairment, critical illness), and structured risk-benefit analysis - each addressing a different point in the medication use process where harm can occur
A systems-based view (not solely individual clinician vigilance) is essential to sustainably reducing medication-related harm, given how many independent steps (prescribing, dispensing, administration, monitoring) carry error potential

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