title: Peculiarities of medication safety.
abstract: The modern concept of patient safe medical treatment lays responsibility for undesirable complications on lacks of healthcare system (structural, organizational and operative); not on medical workers or products of medical purpose. A spirit to comprehension of scales of a problem of a safety the sharp increase of number of judicial claims in occasion of causing harm has served health of patients. If to the beginning of 1970 th in the USA one claim on 100 doctors to 2011 frequency of supply of claims has increased in 12 times was annually registered on the average, and average payment under claims has increased for the same period about 2000 dollars up to 1500000 dollars. The problem of ensuring patient safety is topical. 72 (24%) of the 300 patients interrogated by the authors have declared that at various times were victims of inadequate rendering of medical aid. Among them of 96 (32%) have specified an establishment to them of the wrong diagnosis or purpose of wrong treatment. Results from the current study show the necessity of creation in Georgia systems of monitoring to increase the security of treatment, participation in this business of patients, creation of special preventive and training programs for the medical personnel and students, strengthening of cooperation with the international organizations in area of improvement of quality and a security of medical aid.
authors.affiliation: Tbilisi State Medical University, Department of Social and Clinical Pharmacy, Tbilisi, Georgia.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kvizhinadze
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Gerzmava
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005260:Female; D005846:Georgia (Republic); D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008318:Malpractice / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D008875:Middle Aged; D061214:Patient Safety; D010595:Pharmacists; D010820:Physicians; D014481:United States