Coming soon to a hospital near you: medication reconciliation. That's the directive from the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, which made medication reconciliation one of a dozen National Patient Safety Goals for 2005. JCAHO surveyors started looking for evidence of compliance on Jan. 3.
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