Background: Hospital discharge is an interface of care when patients are at a high risk of medication discrepancies as they transition from hospital to home. These discrepancies are important, as they ...

In the preintervention period, 204 patients (64 of whom used antithrombotic medications) and, in the postintervention period, 93 patients (36 of whom used antithrombotic medications) were included.

Medication discrepancies lead to the deaths of between 7,000 and 9,000 U.S. patients each year, but collecting a consolidated medication list before admission and upon discharge can significantly ...

President Trump’s highly publicized executive order 14297, titled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients,” targets the discrepancy in drug pricing in the United ...

Almost one third of ophthalmology patients’ EHRs may not reflect the most accurate and current medication information, according to a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology. Ann Arbor-based University ...

Consolidating a patient’s medication lists before hospital admission and upon discharge significantly reduced the number of medication discrepancies in a new analysis of the MARQUIS2 study While ...

ABSTRACTObjectives: Methods for efficient medication reconciliation are increasingly important in primary care. Aggregated pharmacy data within the native electronic health record (EHR) may create a ...

A new study from researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham healthcare system, has shed new light on the best strategies hospitals can use for ...