Anticoagulation Therapy: Toolkit for Implementing the National Patient Safety Goal - Tapa blanda

Anticoagulation medications are a high-risk treatment that commonly leads to adverse drug events due to the complexity of dosing these medications, monitoring their effects, and ensuring patient compliance. This new resource is designed to help performance improvement directors, pharmacists, directors of nursing, and medical staff assess the safety of their current anticoagulation practices and/or implement a defined anticoagulation management program. The implementation guide includes an accompanying CD-ROM with practical forms, examples, and other tools that any size organization can consider for its program. The toolkit also includes: thorough discussions of Joint Commission requirements related to anticoagulation therapy; solutions on how an organization can meet specific implementation expectations related to warfarin; information on essential components needed to establish a defined anticoagulation management program; strategies on implementing standardized practices for managing patients using anticoagulation medications; tips on how to reduce compounding and labeling medication errors; strategies to educate patients and their families on complying with physician orders and medication directions, and understanding possible side effects, food/drug interactions, and interactions with other medications; and, case studies highlighting how health care organizations have designed and managed successful anticoagulation therapy programs or clinics.