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” ...
Thirty days after discharge, 50.8 percent of all patients had one or more clinically important medical errors, which include preventable or ameliorable adverse drug events, medication discrepancies ...
CHICAGO – Obtaining complete and accurate medication histories of patients and instituting a medication reconciliation program are vital to reducing medication errors, a new study conducted at ...
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 ...
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 ...
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Wendy Paul and Kyle Longhurst will offer more detail in their HIMSS23 session "Using Machine Learning to Reduce Discharge Medication Errors." It is scheduled for Thursday, April 20, at 2:30 p.m. - ...
A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, has shed new light on the best strategies hospitals can use for ...
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 ...
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 ...
A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, has shed new light on the best strategies hospitals can use for ...
A recent systematic literature review has unveiled a startling 34.11% median incidence rate of medication errors in Indian ...