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	PURPOSE: To delineate guidelines for the clinician's response to adverse drug reactions and recommended patient teaching. POLICY: All Hospice staff will be prepared to identify and react to potential and real adverse reactions. The process for defining, identifying and reviewing significant adverse reactions will be collaborative in nature, among Nursing, Pharmacy and other departments as appropriate. All adverse drug reactions will be reported on the Adverse Drug Reaction Reporting Form. DEFINITION: An adverse drug reaction is an undesirable or unexpected event which occurs due to...
Second excerpt:
	...medication A condition which is life-threatening A condition which requires hospitalization A disability Death The World Health Organization defines an adverse drug reaction as Any response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy of disease or for the modification of physiological function. PROCEDURE: All adverse reactions will be promptly reported to the patient's attending physician in order to...