The problem with medication reconciliation
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Chapter 38. Medication Reconciliation
According to the Institute of Medicine’s Preventing Medication Errors report, the average hospitalized patient is subject to at least one medication error per day. This confirms previous research findings that medication errors represent the most common patient safety error. More than 40 percent of medication errors are believed to result from inadequate reconciliation in handoffs during admiss...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ Quality & Safety
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2044-5415,2044-5423
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2015-004734