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Assessing the Quality of Medication Reconciliation

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Goal: To eliminate avoidable adverse drug events and associated patient harm due to medication discrepancies.

Evaluation of the medication reconciliation process post-implementation to determine:
- Frequency and causes of medication reconciliation failures
- Type of discrepancies involved
- Potential patient harm averted
- Patient and/or medication-related risk factors frequently responsible for inaccurate medication reconciliation

Supported by grant number 5 U18 HS015886 from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

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