The role of housestaff in implementing medication reconciliation on admission at an academic medical center.

Adam S Evans; Eliot J Lazar; Victoria L Tiase; Peter M Fleischut; Susan B Bostwick; George Hripcsak; Richard Liebowitz; Laura L Forese; Gregory E Kerr

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The role of housestaff in implementing medication reconciliation on admission at an academic medical center.

June 16, 2010

Evans AS, Lazar EJ, Tiase VL, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26(1):39-42.

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This article details how one academic medical center engaged housestaff in tactics to achieve higher compliance with medication reconciliation.

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