Name: Medication reconciliation
Creator: Aronson, J
Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences, Medication Reconciliation, 0302 clinical medicine, Health Records, Personal, Humans, Medication Errors, 3. Good health

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 13 Jan 2017 English Publisher:BMJJournal:BMJ (issn: 0959-8138, eissn: 1756-1833,

Authors: Aronson, J;

doi: 10.1136/bmj.i5336

pmid: 28087590

Medication reconciliation

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Abstract

The process of medication reconciliation has five steps: list the patient’s current medications; list the medications currently needed; compare the lists; make a new list based on the comparison; communicate the new list to the patient and caregivers. Medication reconciliation seems to have been first described in 2003. It was born of the observation that medication errors often occur when a patient moves from one place …

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University of Oxford
United Kingdom

Keywords

Medication Reconciliation, Health Records, Personal, Humans, Medication Errors

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