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The Payoff: Preventing Errors Medication Management
By Amy Buttell Crane


Hospitals forge ahead with efforts to improve the way prescriptions get from clinician to pharmacy to patient

When a patient is transferred from one unit to another, or is discharged, is when there is a great chance of medication errors,” Nichols says. “We have to remind everyone that the medications that the patient is on in the hospital have nothing to do with the medications that the patient is on at home.”