Reducing medication errors and improving systems reliability using an electronic medication reconciliation system.

Abha Agrawal; Winfred Y Wu

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Reducing medication errors and improving systems reliability using an electronic medication reconciliation system.

January 2, 2017

Agrawal A, Wu WY. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 2016;35(2).

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Implementation of a medication reconciliation system reduced preventable medication errors at the time of hospital admission.

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