Respond substantively. Comment on the strategies identified by your peers. Provide insight into additional tracer methods.

Respond substantively. Comment on the strategies identified by your peers. Provide insight into additional tracer methods.

To approach the issue of medication reconciliation for safely transitioning patients between inpatient and outpatient areas of care, it would seem to fall upon the inpatient side to take the lead a bit in the quality improvement process. As suggested by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), employing the tracer method to investigate the prevalence of the inpatient hospital interfaces with primary care facilities should be performed on a microsystem level, taking into account the contributions of the full care team, from admission to discharge, to discover areas for quality improvement (2020).