Showing posts with label medicines_reconciliation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label medicines_reconciliation. Show all posts

Thursday, 2 February 2017

Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to improve medicines accuracy in a general surgical ward

Key to the role of a pharmacist, is medicines reconciliation at the interfaces of care. This involves aligning pre-admission medications against those prescribed in hospital using at least two sources, including the Electronic Care Record (ECR).

Prescribers are consulted to ensure errors are corrected and discrepancies resolved, which ultimately prevents patients from coming to harm...

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Thursday, 1 December 2016

Improving and maintaining medicines reconciliation on admission

New Quality and Productivity case study about an initative at North Bristol NHS Trust on improving and maintaining medicines reconciliation on admission.