Dr Phoebe Holdenson Kimura[/caption]
High-quality medicines reconciliation should ideally occur in the emergency department or soon after admission to the ward.
AP
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We must embrace change and lead new models of care
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I have also...
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Australian federal, state and territory health ministers at April’s...
