Managing prescriptions to avoid medication errors

Kidney Times has a thorough look a how to avoid medication errors. Medication Reconciliation: A Practical Guide For Dialysis and Transplant Patients by By Matt Schonder, RPh, MBA, and Kristine S. Schonder, PharmD- two pharmacy experts - gives an overview of what hospitals and pharmacists are doing to prevent errors but when all is said an done the authors suggest you make tracking your own prescriptions a top priority. Unfortunately this is not a one time thing since medications change this requires on going effort but it is a job we have to do.