Implementation of an electronic system for medication reconciliation.

Purpose: The feasibility of implementing an electronic system for targeted pharmacist- and nurse-conducted admission and discharge medication reconciliation and its effects on patient safety, cost, and satisfaction among providers and nurses were studied.

Methods: This study was conducted in two phases: a preimplementation phase and a postimplementation phase. In the preimplementation phase, admission medication histories and discharge medication counseling followed standard care processes.

Clinical importance of pre-morteum blood lymphocytes in cadaver donor tissue typing.

We have refined our immunomagnetic bead (IM bead) procedures to isolate pure and viable lymphocyte subpopulation from pre-morteum (PM) blood for cadaver donor HLA typing, preliminary and final crossmatches (XMs). The results of 1220 XMs were compared using T/B lymphocytes isolated either from PM blood or spleen/lymphnode (SPLN) tissue. IM bead technique was used to isolate T/B cells from PM blood and nylon wool column (NWC) technique was used to isolate T/B cells from SPLN.