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This article explores the underlying processes that ensure safe and effective care in healthcare systems, emphasizing the importance of medicines as infrastructure.
Medicines as infrastructureGood infrastructure quietly supports everyday life.We tend to notice it only when it fails, and sometimes its highest compliment is that nobody really sees it at all.The articles in this month's issue shine a light on the processes that surround every prescription, often unseen but essential to delivering safe and effective care.
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