A clinic visit, hospital admission, or transition in care often begins with medication reconciliation. Developed to provide safer, more coordinated, and better-quality care, medication reconciliation ...

Medication reconciliation at hospital admission and at discharge are 2 very distinct processes. Admission medication reconciliation requires a straightforward comparison of a comprehensive list of a ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . With the rise of hospitalists, in an inpatient setting, this process is often handled and overseen by hospital ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A medication reconciliation bundle including combined pharmacist and prescriber efforts did not reduce 30-day ...

Proper medication reconciliation can help prevent adverse drug events by identifying exactly what medications a patient was taking before coming to the hospital and confirming appropriate medication ...

In this reply to the commentary, “A Call for a Statewide Medication Reconciliation Program,” published in the October 2016 issue of The American Journal of Managed Care®, authors discuss a proven and ...

An effective hospital discharge process created by Cleveland Clinic is pivotal in the handoff of patients to postacute-care providers. Hospital discharge is a complex process involving the primary ...

The elderly and chronically ill patients are typically challenged with many drugs and complicated dosing regimens, often leading to medication errors. Medication errors are one of the most common ...

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a free, downloadable medications at transitions and clinical handoffs toolkit for medication reconciliation. Medication reconciliation is a ...

Like other hospital executives, leaders at King’s Daughters Medical Center, a 99-bed community hospital in Brookhaven, Mississippi, 60 miles south of the state capital in Jackson, were concerned that ...

Reducing unassisted falls among admitted patients with cancer at NewYork-Presbyterian, Weill Cornell Medicine. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2022 ASCO Quality Care Symposium. This abstract ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...