medication reconciliation
- Guideline or reference source
- WHO Glossary
- Definition
- The process of comparing a patient's medication orders to all of the medications that the patient has been taking. This reconciliation is done to avoid medication errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors, or medicine interactions.
- Related Term
- medication error
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