Medication errors when transferring elderly patients between primary health care and hospital care

• In: Hospital Pharmacy Section Posters
• At: New Orleans (USA) (2004)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: HPS-P024
• By: ERIKSSON, Tommy (Apoteket AB, Hospital Pharmacy, Lund, Sweden)
• Co-author(s): Midlöv (Department Clin Pharmacol, Sweden)
  Bergkvist (Apoteket AB, LUND, Sweden)
  Bondesson (Department Clin Pharmacol, Sweden)
  Höglund (Department Clin Pharmacol, Sweden)
  
• Abstract:

  Aim: To evaluate the frequency and nature of errors in medication when patients are transferred between primary and secondary care.
  
  
  
  Methods- Elderly primary health care patients (>65 years) living in nursing homes or in their own homes with care from the community nursing system who had been admitted to one of two hospitals in southern Sweden,..

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