Medication Reconciliation is a process of identifying the
most accurate list of all medications a patient is taking-including name,
dosage, frequency, and route and using this list to provide correct medicationsfor patients anywhere within the health care system. It involves comparing the
patient’s current list of medications against the physician’s admission,
transfer, and/or discharge orders.
This reconciliation is done whenever new medications are
ordered or existing orders are rewritten at every transition of care, in orderto avoid medication errors such as omissions, duplications, dosing errors, ordrug interactions.Reconciliation is considered a Hospitals’ National Patient
Safety Goal since 2005 established by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of
Health Care Organizations (JCAHO)
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