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Catching Medication Errors: The HF-Clinic Pharmacist Is on the Phone

Sep 22, 2016: The medication errors tended to be the kind familiar to heart-failure providers; the study defined them as any discrepancy between the discharge instructions as entered into the electronic medical record and patients' own descriptions of how they were taking the meds.

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Intensive involvement by pharmacy staff & targeting of patients considered high risk for medication errors were key components of medication reconciliation interventions