Patients often have problems after they leave the hospital, in part because errors are made in the medications they are prescribed. The goal of this project is to develop a more accurate and safe medication prescription process when patients enter and leave the hospital and implement this process at six U.S. hospitals. The investigators will measure the success of the project and develop lessons learned so this process can be applied to other hospitals.
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The primary outcome will be unintentional medication discrepancies in admission orders and discharge orders with potential for patient harm
Timeframe: 6 months prior to implementation of intervention to 21 months during intervention