Medication reconciliation in ambulatory oncology

Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 750-757

  Weingart, Saul N ^a,b,c   Cleary, Angela ^a   Seger, Andrew ^a   Eng, Terry K ^a   Saadeh, Mark ^a   Gross, Anne ^a   Shulman, Lawrence N ^a  

^a DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c Joint Commission   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANCER CENTER; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MEDICAL INFORMATION SYSTEM; MEDICATION ERROR; NONBIOLOGICAL MODEL; ONCOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

AMBULATORY CARE; BOSTON; CANCER CARE FACILITIES; CLINICAL PHARMACY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MASSACHUSETTS; MEDICAL ONCOLOGY; MEDICATION ERRORS; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE;

EID: 37349131200     PISSN: 15537250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s1553-7250(07)33090-0     Document Type: Article

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