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.

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 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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...