Impact of Pharmacist Facilitated Discharge Medication Reconciliation
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منابع مشابه
Economic value of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation for reducing medication errors after hospital discharge.
OBJECTIVES Medication discrepancies at the time of hospital discharge are common and can harm patients. Medication reconciliation by pharmacists has been shown to prevent such discrepancies and the adverse drug events (ADEs) that can result from them. Our objective was to estimate the economic value of nontargeted and targeted medication reconciliation conducted by pharmacists and pharmacy tech...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Pharmacy
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2226-4787
DOI: 10.3390/pharmacy2030222