Seguridad del paciente y uso de medicamentos, perspectiva del profesional farmacéutico en México enfocado en el macroproceso de la medicación

Patient’s safety in Mexico regarding the use of medications is a vital and very neglected topic since the community, and the hospital population is at serious risk of suffering from any medication-related problem. Nowadays, the health institutions and the Federal Government have been made isolated efforts to contextualize the issue of safety in the use of medications. Still, the risk for the population that consumes drugs is latent throughout the medication macroprocess, from selection to the monitoring of therapies prescribed to patients. Therefore, we present real examples of events that occurred lately in Mexico and other countries because they were classified and analyzed according to the medication macro-processes and because this group of authors suggests a possible solution to them, which could be adapted to the conditions of each particular situation.