Medication management post discharge: whose job is it anyway?

Improving medication management across the continuum continues to be one of the greatest challenges in modern health care. Theproblemsarisingwithmedicationmanagement in the transition from tertiary to primary care have beenwell documented.With the projected increase in personswith chronic complexdisease,medication-relatedproblems are likely to escalate and will impact not only health professionals and the health systems but most importantly our patients too. The data is in, the problem seems perennial, but the solution may not be as elusive as it appears.