Background: Hospital discharge is an interface of care when patients are at a high risk of medication discrepancies as they transition from hospital to home. These discrepancies are important, as they ...

In the preintervention period, 204 patients (64 of whom used antithrombotic medications) and, in the postintervention period, 93 patients (36 of whom used antithrombotic medications) were included.

Chronic Kidney Disease More Likely in PPI Users In a study, taking a medication not on a nephrologists' list, not taking a specified medication, taking different doses, or following a different ...

Medication discrepancies lead to the deaths of between 7,000 and 9,000 U.S. patients each year, but collecting a consolidated medication list before admission and upon discharge can significantly ...

Almost one third of ophthalmology patients’ EHRs may not reflect the most accurate and current medication information, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. Ann Arbor-based University ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Medication reconciliation is challenging during care transitions. Taking the “best possible medication history” ...

Two-thirds of older adults experience medication errors during hospital stays, particularly when moving between different care settings, according to new research published in BMC Geriatrics.

Consolidating a patient’s medication lists before hospital admission and upon discharge significantly reduced the number of medication discrepancies in a new analysis of the MARQUIS2 study While ...

As a large and continuously expanding health system – including a Level I trauma center, retail pharmacies and specialty pharmacy – it recognized the need to optimize its medication distribution ...

ABSTRACTObjectives: Methods for efficient medication reconciliation are increasingly important in primary care. Aggregated pharmacy data within the native electronic health record (EHR) may create a ...