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JCAHO views medication reconciliation as adverse-event prevention.

June 13, 2011

Thompson CA. American journal of health-system pharmacy : AJHP : official journal of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. 2005;62(15):1528, 1530, 1532.

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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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