Medication reconciliation can help prevent adverse health outcomes, but the process is nontrivial. At its core is a list reconciliation problem: take n lists, review all j items, and decide which k items to keep. That alone, however, can be mentally taxing and error-prone -especially so in the medical context, in which discrepancies of any kind may be clinically significant. Twinlist offers a f...

BACKGROUND Clear processes to facilitate medication reconciliation in a hospital setting are still undefined. The observation unit allows for a high patient turnover rate, where obtaining accurate medication histories is critical. OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess the ability of pharmacists and student pharmacists to identify discrepancies in medication histories obtained a...

Data reconciliation (DR) and principal component analysis (PCA) are two popular data analysis techniques in process industries. Data reconciliation is used to obtain accurate and consistent estimates of variables and parameters from erroneous measurements. PCA is primarily used as a method for reducing the dimensionality of high dimensional data and as a preprocessing technique for denoising me...

Reconciliation is a key objective in building sustainable peace and preventing a relapse into conflict. It is about (re) building relationships among people and groups in society and between the state and its citizens. The process is highly context sensitive, and each society has to tailor its approach to the nature of the conflict and the character of the transition. The reconciliation worksho...

Medication errors are among the most common type of patient-safety error and therefore are a priority for organizational performance-improvement efforts. Medication reconciliation has been found to greatly reduce adverse drug and medication events. At one facility, a computer-generated Physician Discharge Medication Worksheet (PDMW) was developed to aid medication reconciliation. Use of this to...

Pharmaceutical care activities at hospital admission have a significant impact on patient safety. The objective of this study was to identify predictive factors for clinically significant pharmacist interventions (PIs) performed during medication reconciliation and medication review at patient hospital admission.A 4-week prospective study was conducted in 4 medicine wards. At hospital admission...

The need for merging disparate information in real-time is especially acute in government agencies. For example, the Environmental Protection Agency is charged with monitoring and governing actions by private enterprise that could possibly harm the common water supply or the air quality. Being able to collect and merge information from hundreds of databases, across the federal, state and tribal...

Accuracy of an instrument has been traditionally defined as the sum of the precision and the bias. Recently, this notion was generalized to stimators [Bagajewicz, M. (2005a). On the definition of software accuracy in redundant measurement systems.AIChE Journal, 51(4), 1201–1206]. he definition was based on the maximum undetected bias and ignored the frequency of failure, thus providing an upper...

The phenomenon of sin and reconciliation is extant in many religions as a result, elaborate teachings rituals are documented around them. same however cannot be said about the Akan traditional religion. This can due to no or late documentation theology African problem created that perception its removal particular Traditional Religion, general, often seen lacking authenticity. article with help...