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Medication reconciliation performed by pharmacy technicians at the time of preoperative screening.

July 29, 2009

van den Bemt PM, van den Broek S, van Nunen AK, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2009;43:868-74.

This study found that pharmacy technicians led to significant decreases in medication discrepancies.

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