High 5s initiative: implementation of medication reconciliation in France a 5 years experimentation. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

High 5s initiative: implementation of medication reconciliation in France a 5 years experimentation. | AHRQ Patient Safety Network

• Commentary
 
• Published May 2017

High 5s initiative: implementation of medication reconciliation in France a 5 years experimentation.

Dufay É, Doerper S, Michel B, et al. Saf Health. 2017;3:6.

Medication reconciliation has been advocated as a way to reduce discrepancies in medication documentation. This commentary describes a World Health Organization initiative to define and implement a standard medication reconciliation procedure.

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