CAPS Joins the Fight Against Medication Errors

Medication errors are one of the most widespread and preventable causes of harm in modern healthcare. Now Consumers Advancing Patient Safety (CAPS) and more than a dozen other leaders in the field are teaming up to promote best practices to prevent them. Together with Joint Commission, the Society of Hospital Medicine and other leaders in hospital healthcare, CAPS has endorsed a new white paper that gives hospitals practical recommendations for implementing system-wide medication reconciliation programs. The white paper, Making Inpatient Medication Reconciliation Patient Centered, Clinically Relevant, and Implementable: A Consensus Statement on Key Principles and Necessary First Steps, is available - click here. It will also be published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine.