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Potential risk of medication discrepancies and reconciliation errors at admission and discharge from an inpatient medical service.

Climente-Martí M, García-Mañón ER, Artero-Mora AA, Jiménez-Torres NV. Ann Pharmacother. 2010;44:1747-1754.

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Developing a programme for medication reconciliation at the time of admission into hospital.

Manzorro AG, Zoni AC, Rieiro CR, et al. Int J Clin Pharm. 2011;33:603-609.

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Effect of admission medication reconciliation on adverse drug events from admission medication changes.

Boockvar KS, Blum S, Kugler A, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:860-861.

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Medicines reconciliation using a shared electronic health care record.

Moore P, Armitage G, Wright J, Dobrzanski S, Ansari N, Hammond I, Scally A. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:147-153.

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Medication reconciliation during internal hospital transfer and impact of computerized prescriber order entry.

Lee JY, Leblanc K, Fernandes OA, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2010;44:1887-1895.

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The effect of medication reconciliation in elderly patients at hospital discharge.

Midlöv P, Bahrani L, Seyfali M, Höglund P, Rickhag E, Eriksson T. Int J Clin Pharm. 2012;34:113-119.

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Omitted and unjustified medications in the discharge summary.

Perren A, Previsdomini M, Cerutti B, Soldini D, Donghi D, Marone C. Qual Saf Health Care. 2009;18:205-208.

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Results of the Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission.

Gleason KM, McDaniel MR, Feinglass J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:441-447.

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Impact of a pharmacist-facilitated hospital discharge program: a quasi-experimental study.

Walker PC, Bernstein SJ, Tucker Jones JN, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:2003-2010.

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Implementation of a specialized pharmacy team to monitor high-risk medications during discharge.

Martin ES III, Overstreet RL, Jackson-Khalil LR, McCollough HL, Meyer TA, Xu Q. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70:18-21.

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Incidence of adverse events related to health care in Spain: results of the Spanish National Study of Adverse Events.

Aranaz-Andrés JM, Aibar-Remón C, Vitaller-Murillo J, et al. J Epidemiol Community Health. 2008;62:1022-1029.

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Medication reconciliation: barriers and facilitators from the perspectives of resident physicians and pharmacists.

Boockvar KS, Santos SL, Kushniruk A, Johnson C, Nebeker JR. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:329-337.

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Does the implementation of an electronic prescribing system create unintended medication errors? A study of the sociotechnical context through the analysis of reported medication incidents.

Redwood S, Rajakumar A, Hodson J, Coleman JJ. BMC Med Inform Decis Mak. 2011;11:29.

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Hospital discharge documentation and risk of rehospitalisation.

Hansen LO, Strater A, Smith L, et al. BMJ Qual Saf. 2011;20:773-778.

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The effect of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infection on in-hospital mortality.

Oake N, Taljaard M, van Walraven C, Wilson K, Roth V, Forster AJ. Arch Intern Med. 2010;170:1804-1810.

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Early readmissions to the department of medicine as a screening tool for monitoring quality of care problems.

Balla U, Malnick S, Schattner A. Medicine (Baltimore). 2008;87:294-300.

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The interrelationship of isolation precautions and adverse events in an acute care facility.

Spence MR, McQuaid M. Am J Infect Control. 2011;39:154-155.

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Errors in medication history at hospital admission: prevalence and predicting factors.

Hellström LM, Bondesson A, Höglund P, Eriksson T. BMC Clin Pharmacol. 2012;12:9.

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Assessment of adverse drug events among patients in a tertiary care medical center.

Johnston PE, France DJ, Byrne DW, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63:2218-2227.

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Medication reconciliation in the hospital: what, why, where, when, who and how?

Fernandes O, Shojania KG. Healthc Q. 2012;15:42-49.

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