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Medication Reconciliation ... More a Problem Than Ever
Posted July 2, 2008 8:02 PM by Bud Pate, REHS
Related Categories: National Patient Safety Goals
Most of you have not quite figured out how to make medication reconciliation work. And now we're presented with a whole new list of documentation challenges for 2009, not least of which is figuring out exactly what the new requirements mean. What does it mean that providers must communicate about current medications when patients are transferred from unit to unit? Which units? What about from the OR? What does the communication look like? What does the documentation look like? What kind of documentation is required when there is a difference between the home medication list the admitting order set? etc. etc.
We'll be addressing these and other issues as best we can over the next few months, but one thing is clear: our design process just got much harder.
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