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Descriptor English: Medication Reconciliation
Descriptor Spanish: Conciliación de Medicamentos
Descriptor conciliación de medicamentos
Entry term(s) conciliación de la medicación
conciliación de los medicamentos
Scope note: Proceso formal de obtención de una lista completa y exacta de los medicamentos que hay actualmente en el domicilio del paciente, con su nombre, dosificación, frecuencia y vía de administración, comparando la admisión, la transferencia y/o la eliminación de las prescripciones con dicha lista. La reconciliación se hace para evitar errores de medicación.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reconciliação de Medicamentos
Descriptor French: Bilan comparatif des médicaments
Entry term(s): Medication Reconciliations
Reconciliation, Medication
Reconciliations, Medication
Tree number(s): E02.319.529.500
N02.421.450.500.500
N04.452.528.460
N04.590.656
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D059065
Scope note: The formal process of obtaining a complete and accurate list of each patient's current home medications including name, dosage, frequency, and route of administration, and comparing admission, transfer, and/or discharge medication orders to that list. The reconciliation is done to avoid medication errors.
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Medication Errors/prevention & control (2003-2010)
Public MeSH Note: 2011
History Note: 2011
DeCS ID: 54220
Unique ID: D059065
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 2011/01/01
Date of Entry: 2010/06/25
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
Medication Reconciliation - Preferred
Concept UI M0546435
Scope note The formal process of obtaining a complete and accurate list of each patient's current home medications including name, dosage, frequency, and route of administration, and comparing admission, transfer, and/or discharge medication orders to that list. The reconciliation is done to avoid medication errors.
Preferred term Medication Reconciliation
Entry term(s) Medication Reconciliations
Reconciliation, Medication
Reconciliations, Medication



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