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JCAHO views medication reconciliation as adverse-event prevention.
Thompson CA. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2005;62:1528-1532.

This article reports on the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations' medication reconciliation goal and the problems hospitals may encounter when implementing a medication reconciliation program.
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