Preventing adverse drug events
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A major part of the adverse drug events intervention is medication reconciliation. Simple and effective, this procedure requires medication be reconciled whenever a patient moves from or to an area of care, regardless of if they are being moved from a ward, hospital or the community.
Toolkit
 Preventing
adverse drug events toolkit (439kb, pdf)
Tools
 ADE audit summary (66kb, MS Word)
Queensland Health Medical Reconciliation Tool (601kb, pdf)
Reference
National Medication Safety Breakthrough Collaborative, Project Chronicle
http://www.safetyandquality.org/projecthronicl.pdf
Bibliography
Chiquette E, Amato MG, Bussey HI. 1998, ‘Comparison of an Anticoagulation Clinic with Usual Medical Care’, Arch Intern Med., Volume 158, pp 1641-1647
http://archinte.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/158/15/1641
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