Case Study
Medication Reconciliation Myrtue Medical Center
Problem: Manual Reconciliation Causes Errors at Admission and Discharge Myrtue Medical Center, as a recently integrated health care facility, incorporated several independent outpatient clinics and began operating as a critical access hospital in 2005. At that time, reconciliation was a manual process. Nursing typed in a home medication list at admission, doctors added written orders, and pharmacy reviewed and compared the lists. Two inci