Medication discrepancies at discharge from an internal medicine service.

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Medication discrepancies at discharge from an internal medicine service.

Eur J Intern Med. 2011 Feb;22(1):43-8

Authors: Herrero-Herrero J, García-Aparicio J

Medication errors most commonly occur at the time of medication prescribing and particularly at the moment of the transitions of care. The objectives of this study were to identify and characterize the discrepancies between the physicians' discharge medication orders and the medication lists at admission obtained by an internal medicine specialist physician in a general internal medicine service.

PMID: 21238892 [PubMed - in process]

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