Insufficient communication about medication use at the interface between hospital and primary care.

Bente Glintborg; Stig Ejdrup Andersen; Kim Dalhoff

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Insufficient communication about medication use at the interface between hospital and primary care.

February 28, 2007

Glintborg B, Andersen SE, Dalhoff K. Qual Saf Health Care. 2007;16(1):34-9.

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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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