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Medicines reconciliation: a patient safety priority
Author(s) -
Shah Chetan,
Barnett Nina
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
prescriber
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.106
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1931-2253
pISSN - 0959-6682
DOI - 10.1002/psb.1415
Subject(s) - medicine , nice , key (lock) , advice (programming) , patient safety , nursing , medical emergency , intensive care medicine , health care , computer security , law , political science , computer science , programming language
Medicines reconciliation is critical to safe, effective patient care and was identified as a key priority in the recent NICE guidance on Medicines Optimisation . 1 Here, Dr Shah and Dr Barnett provide advice on conducting a complete and accurate medicines reconciliation.