Medication reconciliation and prescribing reviews by pharmacy technicians in a geriatric ward

• Main Authors: Thomas Croft Buck (Author), Louise Smed Gronkjaer (Author), Marie-Louise Duckert (Author), Jens-Ulrik Rosholm (Author), Lise Aagaard (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objective: Incomplete medication histories obtained on hospital admission are responsible for more than 25% of prescribing errors. This study aimed to evaluate whether pharmacy technicians can assist hospital physicians' in obtaining medication histories by performing medication reconciliation...