Background: Medication reconciliation during admission is a critical step in ensuring patient safety and preventing medication errors, particularly as patients often receive new medications during their hospital stays. However, physicians may not always have access to a complete and accurate medication history, which can lead to risks such as drug interactions, incorrect dosing, or adverse [...]

Background: Access to “fresh” admissions, in which an admitting team is the first to evaluate a new patient apart from emergency department (ED) staff, is critical to the experience and skill development of medical trainees, particularly interns. Fewer fresh admissions were assigned to teaching teams at Yale New Haven Hospital between 2019-2021 due to system-level [...]