Medication reconciliation at hospital admission and discharge: insufficient knowledge, unclear task reallocation and lack of collaboration as major barriers to medication safety
<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Medication errors are a leading cause of patient harm. Many of these errors result from an incomplete overview of medication either at a patient’s referral to or at discharge from the hospital. One solution is medication reconciliati...
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| Language: | English |
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BMC
2012-06-01
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| Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
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| Online Access: | http://www.biomedcentral.com/1472-6963/12/170 |