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Medication management post discharge: whose job is it anyway?
Author(s) -
Criddle Deirdre T.,
Jayasuriya Pradeep H.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of pharmacy practice and research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2055-2335
pISSN - 1445-937X
DOI - 10.1002/jppr.1102
Subject(s) - medicine , management , nursing , economics
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.