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The Safety Problem: Flowchart
Flowchart describing the factors involved in patients not receiving adequate medication education before leaving the hospital.
Factors include:
Health Care Team
- Staffing shortages
- Inconsistent knowledge of resources
Resources
- Inconsistent availability of teaching tools
- Generic teaching documentation forms
Methods
- Patient education left to day of discharge
- Little collaboration among disciplines
- Variability in the degree/amount of education
Patient
- Hard to predict LOS
- High patient acuity and number of medications
- High census and patient turnover
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