High Prevalence of Medication Discrepancies Between Home Health Referrals and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Home Health Certification and Plan of Care and Their Potential to Affect Safety of Vulnerable Elderly Adults

To describe the prevalence of discrepancies between medication lists that referring providers and home healthcare (HH) nurses create.

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