Mother claims hospital error kept her from newborn daughter.

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Mother claims hospital error kept her from newborn daughter.

October 31, 2007

Barbella M. Drug Topics. October 8, 2007.

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This article reports how a failure to perform medication reconciliation during patient transfer led to a mother being separated from her newborn daughter for several months.

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