This week, we look at medication reconciliation.

Joshua Pevnick, health services researcher and hospital physician at Cedars-Sinai Hospital, LA, US, talks us through what it is and why it can be so hard to get right. 

And Emma Iddles, a junior doctor in general surgery at Hairmyres Hospital, Lanarkshire, UK, explains how her project improved medicines reconciliation in the surgical admissions unit of the hospital.

<p>For more, read Joshua's full paper, http://goo.gl/O59BWo, and Emma's project write up http://goo.gl/znrNGQ.</p>

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Effective, efficient, patient-centred and safe healthcare is what we all want to see, and what the field of quality improvement is all about.

In these podcasts, Harriet Vickers talks to doctors and other healthcare professionals about how they’ve gone about improving care for their patients, and explores the ideas and techniques behind making change happen.

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