Medication reconciliation: reducing risk for medication misadventure during transition from hospital to assisted living.

Marie Fitzgibbon; Rebecca Lorenz; Helen Lach

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Medication reconciliation: reducing risk for medication misadventure during transition from hospital to assisted living.

December 13, 2013

Fitzgibbon M, Lorenz R, Lach H. J Gerontol Nurs. 2013;39(12):22-9; quiz 30-1.

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Medication discrepancies were extremely common in geriatric patients at the time of discharge from hospital to assisted living facilities, highlighting the need for better medication reconciliation in this situation.

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