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J Particip Med
January 2025
Department of Ambulatory Care, Center for Primary Care and Public Health (Unisanté), University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Background: Health authorities worldwide have invested in digital technologies to establish robust information exchange systems for improving the safety and efficiency of medication management. Nevertheless, inaccurate medication lists and information gaps are common, particularly during care transitions, leading to avoidable harm, inefficiencies, and increased costs. Besides fragmented health care processes, the inconsistent incorporation of patient-driven changes contributes to these problems.
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January 2025
Department of Pharmacy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Toulouse, Toulouse, France
Purpose: More than 20% of prescription errors in hospitals are due to an incomplete medication history. Medication reconciliation is a solution to decrease unintentional discrepancies between medications taken at home and hospital prescriptions. It is a normalised clinical activity but it is time consuming.
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January 2025
Lynn S. Muller, JD, RN, BA-HCM, CCM, began her career at Pace University as a Registered Professional Nurse (RN), went onto earn her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Health Care Management at St. Peter's University of New Jersey and then her Juris Doctor from Quinnipiac University School of Law. She is currently a practicing Attorney and the managing partner of Muller & Muller. Her practice includes the defense of healthcare professionals before the state licensing boards, case management litigation, family law, wills, trusts, and estates, as well as consulting representation of medical practitioners, facilities and health service corporations on such issues as regulatory compliance and day-to-day operations. She is a popular and sought-after keynote and session speaker at national and regional conferences. She is the Contributing Editor of Professional Case Management: The Official Journal of the Case Management Society of America (CMSA), She is a former member of the Board of Directors of CMSA of New York City and a former adjunct Professor at Saint Peter's University School of Nursing in the MSN and DNP Programs. She is the author of over 80 articles in nursing and case management journals and listed on the NIH website. She is a contributor to the 2016 CMSA Standards of Practice and CMSA Career & Knowledge Pathways. She is the author of both legal chapters of the 3rd edition of Case Management: A Practical Guide for Education and Practice and 3rd edition of the CMSA Core Curriculum for Case Management. She is a former Commissioner for the Commission for Case Management Certification (CCMC), where she now serves on the Professional Development and Education Committee, is a Certified Facilitator for CCM CERTIFCATION 360 a Multi-day Immersion Program and other special projects. She is a contributor to the CCMC Case Management Body of Knowledge (CMBOK) and a past President of the New Jersey Chapter of CMSA. She is the former Director of Social Services for the Borough of Bergenfield, NJ, a community-based case management program she developed and initiated. She has also served her community as public defender, municipal court judge, councilwoman and chaired the Borough's Barrier Free Committee.
Int J Clin Pharm
January 2025
Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy, Amsterdam University Medical Centers, Location VUMC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: Deprescribing inappropriate cardiovascular and antidiabetic medication has been shown to be feasible and safe. Healthcare providers often perceive the deprescribing of cardiovascular and antidiabetic medication as a challenge and therefore it is still not widely implemented in daily practice.
Aim: The aim was to assess whether training focused on conducting a deprescribing-oriented clinical medication review (CMR) results in a reduction of the inappropriate use of cardiovascular and antidiabetic medicines.
J Health Popul Nutr
January 2025
Al Wafa Dental Center, Unayzah, Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Medication reconciliation has been acknowledged as a key intervention against medication errors. More than half of the medication errors that happen during care transitions are caused by unjustified medication discrepancies and up to one-third of these mistakes may be harmful. The study aimed to evaluate the knowledge, attitude and practices (KAP) of health care providers in on medication reconciliation process, pre and post educational intervention.
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