Chapter 15: Medicines optimization: ensuring quality and safety
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Overview
This chapter discusses the optimization of medicines. Medicines optimization is about ensuring that the right patients get the right choice of medicine at the right time. By focusing on patients and their experiences, the goal is to help patients to:
- improve their outcomes
- take their medicines correctly
- avoid taking unnecessary medicines
- reduce wastage of medicines
- improve medicines safety.