Pharmacist-driven medication reconciliation reduces oral oncolytic medication errors during transitions of care.

CONCLUSION: The inability to fully confirm patients' home regimen via chart review poses great risk to accurate medication ordering upon hospital admission. Completion of medication reconciliations by pharmacists serves to decrease rates of errors that may occur during hospital admission in cancer patients undergoing treatment with oral oncolytic therapies. PMID: 32725142 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32725142?dopt=Abstract

Source: American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy : AJHP - July 28, 2020 Category: Drugs & Pharmacology Authors: Heffner C, Dillaman M, Hill J Tags: Am J Health Syst Pharm Source Type: research