Medication reconciliation - reducing medication errors

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section - Posters
• At: Beijing (China) (2007)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P-071
• By: DUGUID, Margaret (Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia)
• Co-author(s): Crowley, Valerie (Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia)
  Hilmer, Sarah (Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia)
  Astles, Dawn (Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia)
  O'Doherty, Roseleen (Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia)
  Reeves, Diane (Northern SydneyCentral Coast Health, Gosford, Australia)
  Verge, Meredith (Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia)
  
• Abstract:

  Background: In 2006 Royal North Shore Hospital was a site for the Safer Systems Saving Lives (SSSL) - Reducing Adverse Drug Events (ADE) project. The toolkit for the project describes four care components: a medication history, confirmation of the history with second source, reconciliation of the history with medication orders and medication

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