The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality provides a free, downloadable medications at transitions and clinical handoffs toolkit for medication reconciliation. Medication reconciliation is a ...

Researchers studied 851 adults hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes or acute decompensated heart failure at two tertiary care academic hospitals. A randomized group of patients received ...

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 ...

On average, home health patients take 13 medications, and the average time to manually input the required information about a single medication is 1.5 minutes. This means that for the average patient, ...

Minor: Incomplete information in medication order; unavailable or inappropriate dosage form; nonformulary drug; illegible, ambiguous, or nonstandard abbreviation. Significant: High dosage (1.5-4 times ...