Abstract:With the improvement of people′s living standard and strengthening health concerns,the home medication cabinet is used widely in community families.But there are potential dangers of safe medication in the home medication cabinet,and irrational use of family medicines can easily cause adverse drug reactions and drug-induced diseases.Through reviewing reference literatures,analyze investigations on safe medication of the home medication cabinets in our country in the past 10 years.The study results can provide reference for pharmacists in designing management,consultation,and guidance of family safe medication.Pharmacists in community hospitals should play the role of pharmaceutical care so as to improve the level of safe medication of the home medication cabinets.
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