Beyond Medication Reconciliation: The Correct Medication List

Medication reconciliation is a major focus of quality measurement activities, and according to The Joint Commission, primary care clinicians are expected to reconcile a patient's medications at every visit. In principle, medication reconciliation is quite important; in practice, however, it has...

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Published inJAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association Vol. 317; no. 20; pp. 2057 - 2058
Main Authors Rose, Adam J, Fischer, Shira H, Paasche-Orlow, Michael K
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States American Medical Association 23.05.2017
Subjects
Clinical outcomes
Drug administration
Drugs
Health care
Humans
Medication Errors - prevention & control
Medication Reconciliation - economics
Medication Reconciliation - methods
Medication Reconciliation - standards
Quality assessment
Quality of care
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Summary:Medication reconciliation is a major focus of quality measurement activities, and according to The Joint Commission, primary care clinicians are expected to reconcile a patient's medications at every visit. In principle, medication reconciliation is quite important; in practice, however, it has failed to have a demonstrable effect on patient outcomes. This may partly be because the lack of agreement about what constitutes medication reconciliation makes it difficult to decide when it has occurred and therefore difficult to study its effect. Here, Rose et al discuss the multiple levels of reconciliation.
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ISSN:0098-7484
1538-3598
DOI:10.1001/jama.2017.4628