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” ...

Medication reconciliation should be done at every transition of care in which new medications are ordered or existing orders are rewritten. Transitions in care include changes in setting (such as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Getting a complete view into a patient’s prescribed medication therapy is the first challenge. Understanding and improving their adherence is what follows. In a time of EHRs, e-prescribing, and ...

WellSpan Health is a non-profit, integrated health system serving the communities of central Pennsylvania and northern Maryland. This eight-hospital health system has been recognized with an Eisenberg ...

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 ...

Medicare Advantage plans have a clear opportunity to improve quality by delivering more comprehensive, timely medication reconciliation services to recently discharged members. Unplanned hospital ...

A new report from Griffith University has found that fragmented medication systems in Australian aged care are driving high rates of medication discrepancies and avoidable hospital admissions—costing ...

Cancer patients often juggle complex medication regimens, making accurate reconciliation during care transitions critical for safety. SOP-based approaches, informed by established toolkits, are ...