Background: Medication discrepancies are a cause of avoidable harm when patients are discharged from the hospital. As such, the Joint Commission has made medication reconciliation at discharge a requirement for hospital accreditation. However, in practice, the quality of medication reconciliation varies enormously. Review of medication discrepancies at discharge can be used to design better clinical […]

Background: Despite the introduction of Early Warning Scores (EWSs), clinical deterioration (CD) remains an actual problem on the general ward. A next step to counter CD would be to intensify measurement from intermittent 8 hours to continuous measurements. This leads to big data sets of patient monitoring data with great potential. Use of advanced predictive […]