Drive Home the Importance of Home Med Best Practices

July 2025

You can help decrease errors when patients bring their home meds into the hospital.

Home med errors can happen due to miscommunication, duplicate therapies, loss of meds, incorrect med or dose, etc.

For example, a situation occurred when 2 patients shared a hospital room and each brought in home meds. One got discharged with the other’s home meds used in-house.

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