Primary Care MedRec Guide

The intent of this guide is to provide quality improvement based strategies and best practice ideas for implementing, sustaining and measuring medication reconciliation in primary care practice settings in Ontario. Primary care practice settings can include individual practitioner or interprofessional team based settings. The applicability of parts of this guide may depend on the resources available, processes already established and geographical location of individual practice sites in Ontario. Sites are encouraged to review the entire guide and determine which aspects best suit the individual needs of their site. For the purposes of this guide the term 'primary care provider' refers to the main healthcare practitioner who is responsible for the patient and has prescribing authority (i.e., family physician or nurse practitioner). The term 'patient' refers to the person that is receiving care and is intended to be synonymous with client, resident and consumer.

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