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Insufficient communication about medication use at the interface between hospital and primary care.
Glintborg B, Andersen SE, Dalhoff K. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16:34-39.

Researchers interviewed patients 1 week post-discharge about their prescription medications and found discrepancies between medications being used and what was documented in hospital records.
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