ASC Durango (Colo.) recently underwent its first AAAHC survey and achieved accreditation. During the survey, it was brought to the attention of Cheryl Desko, RN, clinical director for the ASC, that ...

Jeannie Pezone, administrator at West Park Surgery Center in Pinellas Park, Fla., explains the process the surgery center uses to ensure medication reconciliation is achieved according to standards ...

CHICAGO – Obtaining complete and accurate medication histories of patients and instituting a medication reconciliation program are vital to reducing medication errors, a new study conducted at ...

The issue that healthcare organizations struggle with now is where to get the resources to develop a med rec team that is dedicated to collecting patient medication histories. Editor’s note: This is ...

Researchers studied 851 adults hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes or acute decompensated heart failure at two tertiary care academic hospitals. A randomized group of patients received ...

The elderly and chronically ill patients are typically challenged with many drugs and complicated dosing regimens, often leading to medication errors. Medication errors are one of the most common ...

The electronic medication reconciliation documentation process developed and implemented at our institution could be adapted and implemented in other facilities. Requirements for successful ...

Purpose: The effectiveness of a multidisciplinary medication reconciliation process was studied in an inpatient family medicine unit of an academic hospital center. Methods: In phase 1 of this ...

The results of this simulation model suggest that implementing a pharmacist-led medication reconciliation intervention at hospital discharge could be cost-saving compared with usual care. Objectives: ...

Medicare Advantage plans have a clear opportunity to improve quality by delivering more comprehensive, timely medication reconciliation services to recently discharged members. Unplanned hospital ...

On average, home health patients take 13 medications, and the average time to manually input the required information about a single medication is 1.5 minutes. This means that for the average patient, ...