Pharmacist- versus physician-acquired medication history: a prospective study at the emergency department.

Sabrina De Winter; Isabel Spriet; Christophe Indevuyst; Peter Vanbrabant; Didier Desruelles; Marc Sabbe; Jean Bernard Gillet; Alexander Wilmer; Ludo Willems

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Pharmacist- versus physician-acquired medication history: a prospective study at the emergency department.

December 1, 2010

De Winter S, Spriet I, Indevuyst C, et al. Qual Saf Health Care. 2010;19(5):371-5.

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Pharmacists and physicians obtained different medication histories in the majority of patients presenting to an urban emergency department, with physicians frequently committing errors of omission by failing to record patients' use of as-needed medications.

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