U Illinois in Chicago Granted $4.25M to Develop Programs for Safer Medication Use

The University of Illinois at Chicago College of Pharmacy has received a $4.25 million federal grant to develop programs for safer medication use, including tools for preventing medication errors and making drug information easier to understand.

 

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The UIC's Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics will develop, test and distribute tools and training materials in four areas:

1.    Statistical methods for large-scale studies of comparative drug safety and effectiveness
2.    Opioid prescribing and dosing for acute pain
3.    Methods for preventing and detecting drug name confusion errors
4.    Plain-language drug information

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