Addressing delays in medication administration for patients transferred from the hospital to the nursing home: a pilot quality improvement project.

Katherine T. Ward; Barbara Bates-Jensen; Michelle S. Eslami; Elizabeth Whiteman; Lucia Dattoma; Jodi L. Friedman; Jeffrey DeCastro Mariano; Alison A. Moore

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Addressing delays in medication administration for patients transferred from the hospital to the nursing home: a pilot quality improvement project.

December 10, 2008

Ward KT, Bates-Jensen B, Eslami MS, et al. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2008;6(4):205-11.

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A quality improvement intervention failed to reduce medication errors associated with transferring patients from hospital to nursing facilities.

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