Improving the timeliness of medicines dosing through use of patient’s own medicines

• In: Poster presentation
• At: Seoul (South Korea) (2017)
• Type: Poster
• Poster code: POS-HPS-029
• By: DELFANTE, Brock (SCGH, Perth, Australia)
• Co-author(s): Brock Delfante
  Rhonda Clifford
  Christopher Kleeman
  Felipe Duque
  Dennis Zienkiewicz
  Peter Smart
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Unintentional omissions and delays in medicines dosing are common during hospitalisation, and may occur at any stage of the medication management pathway. Evidence suggests the impact to the patient may vary from insignificant to severe harm. The use of patients’ own medicines (POM’s) has been suggested to improve timeliness of medicines ..

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