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Medication Reconciliation

"Medication Reconciliation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The formal process of obtaining a complete and accurate list of each patient's current home medications including name, dosage, frequency, and route of administration, and comparing admission, transfer, and/or discharge medication orders to that list. The reconciliation is done to avoid medication errors.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Medication Reconciliation" by people in this website by year, and whether "Medication Reconciliation" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 11 publications over 7 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2015 and 2018
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