Implementation and spread of a simple and effective way to improve the accuracy of medicines reconciliation on discharge: a hospital-based quality improvement project and success story.

Shady Botros; John Dunn

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Implementation and spread of a simple and effective way to improve the accuracy of medicines reconciliation on discharge: a hospital-based quality improvement project and success story.

September 11, 2019

Botros S, Dunn J. BMJ Open Qual. 2019;8(3):e000363.

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A quality improvement program that used a paper-based reminder to encourage physicians to complete medication reconciliation and communicate medication changes to outpatient physicians effectively improved the accuracy of medication reconciliation at discharge in a Scottish teaching hospital's surgical ward. The intervention was successfully disseminated to other wards within the hospital.

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