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Assessing The Effectiveness Of Implementation Of Unified Workflow In Improvement Of Medication Reconciliation For Aurora St. Luke’S Family Medicine Residency Outpatients, Katherine Meyers, Jessica Konarske, Jessica J.F. Kram, Dennis J. Baumgardner
Assessing The Effectiveness Of Implementation Of Unified Workflow In Improvement Of Medication Reconciliation For Aurora St. Luke’S Family Medicine Residency Outpatients, Katherine Meyers, Jessica Konarske, Jessica J.F. Kram, Dennis J. Baumgardner
Journal of Patient-Centered Research and Reviews
Background: Medication errors are the most common errors occurring in hospitals. Preventable adverse drug events are linked with 1 in 5 injuries or deaths; 23% of medication errors in primary care occur due to inaccuracies in the medication list. Quality improvement projects designed to improve accuracy of outpatient medication reconciliations may decrease the number of medication errors and increase patient safety by preventing adverse drug events.
Purpose: To determine whether a unified workflow for medication reconciliation improves the accuracy of ambulatory, electronic medical record (EMR)-based patient medication records.
Methods: Retrospective study of random sample of patients from Aurora Family Medicine …