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Article: Standardizing Medication Reconciliation Across Facilities.
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- Health Data Management
- Article date:
- April 1, 2007
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Devising an effective strategy for reconciling patient medications is difficult enough to do at one facility. The Illinois Hospital Association took the task to another level by coordinating the development of a standard medication reconciliation process at 26 facilities across the state.
Becky Steward, who managed the project for the association, said the task imparted valuable lessons about the numerous complexities surrounding medication reconciliation. Steward spoke during the Nursing Informatics Symposium at the 2007 HIMSS Conference.
The first lesson learned during the initiative is that even organizations that think they have medication ...