Reconciliation is a process of identifying the most accurate
list of a patient's medications. It requires comparing a patient's existing
medications with those physicians might order during admission, transfer
or discharge. The key to the reconciliation process is an accurate Universal
Medication
Form carried by the patient. To download a PDF of this form, click
here.
Here's a real life example to show you why medication reconciliation
is important.
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A patient entered a Hospital with Hypotension (essentially low blood pressure) and on four blood pressure medications.
After a couple days of treatment by six different specialists, his blood pressure was improving. In a short time, he was sent home.
On discharge he was given a "blanket" order to "Continue Home Meds", plus an additional blood pressure medication.
The man was readmitted to the Emergency Room 2 weeks later, the victim of low blood pressure.
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