HIGHER accuracy of complex medication reconciliation can be achieved through improved design of electronic tools according to new work out of the USA published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.
The paper reports on a direct comparison of two different medication reconciliation tools integrated into electronic health record systems that are aimed at determining the accuracy of the two different tools.
The authors found that clinicians using one platform made significantly fewer errors with the better performing tool presenting lists in a side-by-side view, automatically grouping medications by therapeutic class and more effectively identifying duplicates.
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