Development of a tool within the electronic medical record to facilitate medication reconciliation after hospital discharge.
Serious medication errors occur commonly in the period after hospital discharge. Medication reconciliation in the postdischarge ambulatory setting may be one way to reduce the frequency of these errors. The authors describe the design and implementation of a novel tool built into an ambulatory electronic medical record (EMR) to facilitate postdischarge medication reconciliation. The tool compares the preadmission medication list within the ambulatory EMR to the hospital discharge medication list [...]
Author(s): Schnipper, Jeffrey L, Liang, Catherine L, Hamann, Claus, Karson, Andrew S, Palchuk, Matvey B, McCarthy, Patricia C, Sherlock, Melanie, Turchin, Alexander, Bates, David W
DOI: 10.1136/amiajnl-2010-000040