Medication discrepancies affecting senior patients at hospital admission.
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Unintended medication discrepancies associated with reliance on prescription databases for medication reconciliation on admission to a general medical ward.
BACKGROUND In a recent study, 50% of the patients who were admitted to a hospital's general medicine ward had at least one error in medication orders at the time of admission related to inaccuracies in the medication history. The use of computerized prescription databases has been suggested as a way to improve medication reconciliation at the time of admission. OBJECTIVE To quantify and descr...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
دوره 63 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2006