ArticleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society2016
High Prevalence of Medication Discrepancies Between Home Health Referrals and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Home Health Certification and Plan of Care and Their Potential to Affect Safety of Vulnerable Elderly Adults.
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- Challenges in Deprescribing among Older Adults in Post-Acute Care Transitions to Home.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2024Article
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- Medications Associated With Geriatric Syndromes (MAGS) and Hospitalization Risk in Home Health Care Patients.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
- Addressing the Gap in Data Communication from Home Health Care to Primary Care during Care Transitions: Completeness of an Interoperability Data Standard.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Patient safety in home care: A multicenter cross-sectional study about medication errors and medication management of nurses.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2022Article
- A qualitative analysis of communication workflows between adult day service centers and primary care providers.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
- Is Health Information Exchange Participation Associated With Hospital Readmissions From Home Health Care?Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2022Article
- Exploring Reasons for Delayed Start-of-Care Nursing Visits in Home Health Care: Algorithm Development and Data Science Study.JMIR nursing · 2021Article
- Usability of Electronic Health Record-Generated Discharge Summaries: Heuristic Evaluation.Journal of medical Internet research · 2021Article
- Incorporating home healthcare nurses' admission information needs to inform data standards.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2020Observational
- Quality of Hospital Communication and Patient Preparation for Home Health Care: Results From a Statewide Survey of Home Health Care Nurses and Staff.Journal of the American Medical Directors Association · 2019Article
- Information management goals and process failures during home visits for middle-aged and older adults receiving skilled home healthcare services after hospital discharge: a multisite, qualitative study.BMJ quality & safety · 2019Article
- Prevalence and risk factors of drug-related hospitalizations in multimorbid patients admitted to an internal medicine ward.PloS one · 2019Observational
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Abstract
objectivesTo describe the prevalence of discrepancies between medication lists that referring providers and home healthcare (HH) nurses create.
designThe active medication list from the hospital at time of HH initiation was compared with the HH agency's plan of care medication list. An electronic algorithm was developed to compare the two lists for discrepancies.
settingSingle large hospital and HH agency in the western United States.
participantsIndividuals referred for HH from the hospital in 2012 (N = 770, 96.3% male, median age 71). MEASUREMENTS: Prevalence was calculated for discrepancies, including medications missing from one list or the other and differences in dose, frequency, or route for medications contained on both lists.
resultsParticipants had multiple medical problems (median 16 active problems) and were taking a median of 15 medications (range 1-93). Every participant had at least one discrepancy; 90.1% of HH lists were missing at least one medication that the referring provider had prescribed, 92.1% of HH lists contained medications not on the referring provider's list, 89.8% contained medication naming errors. 71.0% contained dosing discrepancies, and 76.3% contained frequency discrepancies.
conclusionDiscrepancies between HH and referring provider lists are common. Future work is needed to address possible safety and care coordination implications of discrepancies in this highly complex population.
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