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Model-based cost-effectiveness analysis of interventions aimed at preventing medication error at hospital admission
Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 04/22/09

Karnon J et al. - The medication errors model provides reasonably strong evidence that some form of intervention to improve medicines reconciliation is a cost-effective use of NHS resources. The variation in the reported effectiveness of the few identified studies of medication error interventions illustrates the need for extreme attention to detail in the development of interventions, but also in their evaluation and may justify the primary evaluation of more than one specification of included interventions.

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