In their article, "Measuring to Improve Medication Reconciliation in a Large Subspecialty Outpatient Practice" in this issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, Kern and her coauthors report on the past several years of experiences of National Jewish Health (NJH) in ...
Medication reconciliation arose as the solution to the well-documented patient safety problem of unintentionally introducing changes in patients' medication regimens due to incomplete or inaccurate medication information at transitions in care. Unfortunately, medication reconciliation has often been misperceived ...
How Can Information Technology Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Medication Errors in Children\"s Health Care? BackgroundMedication errors are common, costly, and injurious to patients.ObjectiveTo review the role of information technology in decreasing pediatric med... R Kaushal,KN Barker,DW Bates -...
An estimated 24 percent of patients who are discharged with heart failure (HF) are readmitted to the hospital within 30 days. Learn how this healthcare organization engaged physicians and multidisciplinary teams to improve outcomes. Deploying evidence best practices—medication reconciliation, follow-up ...
Medication management. This feature supports electronic prescribing and medication reconciliation to reduce errors. Mobile access offers mobile applications for remote access to patient information and task management. Population health management. The feature helps monitor and improve specific patient populations...
Medication review Pharmacy technicians can usually obtain an up-to-date record of the patient's prescription from the general practitioner (GP) on admission. Their assistance with medication reconciliation for patients on complex drug regimens is vital, particularly in patients with Parkinson's disease...
Medication history collection is an important first step prior to MTM or medication reconciliation—2 evidence-based practices proven to improve patient outcomes. When pharmacy technicians collect medication history, they can give time back to pharmacists, allowing them to provide these services to more...
4CPS-032 How to improve the appropriate prescription of anticoagulants during unexpected emergency room admittance to the hospital? A case series report us... We report here the results of two case series with respect to accuracy in the medication reconciliation on the emergency room (ER) ward....
The implementation of treatment plans offered a viable solution to improve the accuracy of information in EMRs, including oral therapy use, initiation, and the duration of therapy. And just as medication administration records are available for intravenous drugs, so were activities within the treatmen...
that UISPs are a feasible and effective tool to measure the impacts of ICS training or anti-bias training and that the tested intensive and brief ICS trainings hold promise to substantially improve Indigenous patient experience. A larger study is needed to determine the impact on clinical practice...