TY - JOUR AU - Gilbert, Alice V. AU - Patel, Bhavini AU - Morrow, Melanie AU - Williams, Desmond AU - Roberts, Michael S. AU - Gilbert, Andrew L. PY - 2012 DA - 2012/12/10 TI - Providing community-based health practitioners with timely and accurate discharge medicines information JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 453 VL - 12 IS - 1 AB - Accurate and timely medication information at the point of discharge is essential for continuity of care. There are scarce data on the clinical significance if poor quality medicines information is passed to the next episode of care. This study aimed to compare the number and clinical significance of medication errors and omission in discharge medicines information, and the timeliness of delivery of this information to community-based health practitioners, between the existing Hospital Discharge Summary (HDS) and a pharmacist prepared Medicines Information Transfer Fax (MITF). SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-453 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-12-453 ID - Gilbert2012 ER -