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, ...

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 ...

Medication reconciliation is an important part of maintaining medication safety, and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses calls on all perioperative RNs to focus on safety during the six ...

The medication history seemed complete, but something wasn't quite right. So Eric Poolman, MD, MBA, asked the family to bring in the patient's pill box. He'll never forget what he found. "One of the ...

Not long ago, New Jersey health system Hackensack Meridian Health faced a multifaceted challenge rooted in the manual, inefficient and fragmented nature of its medication management workflows. The ...