ReviewPharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2015
Medication Reconciliation at Discharge from Hospital: A Systematic Review of the Quantitative Literature.
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27 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Global research trends of home pharmaceutical care: a bibliometric analysis via CiteSpace.Frontiers in medicine · 2025Pooled it
- Medication-related experiences of patients with polypharmacy: a systematic review of qualitative studies.BMJ open · 2020Pooled it
- Prevalence and Nature of Medication Errors and Medication-Related Harm Following Discharge from Hospital to Community Settings: A Systematic Review.Drug safety · 2020Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in the community after hospital discharge.BMJ quality & safety · 2018Pooled it
- Adverse drug events during transitions of care : Randomized clinical trial of medication reconciliation at hospital admission.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2022Trial
- Effect of an Electronic Medication Reconciliation Intervention on Adverse Drug Events: A Cluster Randomized Trial.JAMA network open · 2019Trial
- Hospital seamless care beyond medication reconciliation: a 1-year evaluation in a Slovenian general hospital.Wiener klinische Wochenschrift · 2026Article
- RxReduce: a medication deprescribing agent framework leveraging large language models to optimize proton pump inhibitor use.JAMIA open · 2026Article
- Medication information completeness in discharge summaries from a Norwegian rural hospital - a cross-sectional study.BMC health services research · 2025Article
- Effect of Inpatient Pharmacist-Led Medication Reconciliations on Medication-Related Interventions in Intensive Care Unit Recovery Centers.Hospital pharmacy · 2024Article
- Discrepancies in Electronic Medical Prescriptions Found in a Hospital Emergency Department: A Prospective Observational Study.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effectiveness of pharmacist-led medication reconciliation on medication errors at hospital discharge and healthcare utilization in the next 30 days: a pragmatic clinical trial.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2024Article
- COVID-19 Patients' Medication Management during Transition of Care from Hospital to Virtual Care: A Cross-Sectional Survey and Audit.Pharmacy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Inpatient pharmacists using a readmission risk model in supporting discharge medication reconciliation to reduce unplanned hospital readmissions: a quality improvement intervention.BMJ open quality · 2022Review
- Medicines Reconciliation in the Emergency Department: Important Prescribing Discrepancies between the Shared Medication Record and Patients' Actual Use of Medication.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Implementation of a shared medication list in primary care - a controlled pre-post study of medication discrepancies.BMC health services research · 2021Article
- Evaluation of Pharmacist Renal Dose Adjustments and Planning for Future Evaluations of Pharmacist Services.Hospital pharmacy · 2021Article
- Medication discrepancies among elderly patients discharged from a tertiary hospital: prevalence and risk factors.Singapore medical journal · 2021Article
- Medication errors in primary health care records; a cross-sectional study in Southern Sweden.BMC family practice · 2019Article
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Abstract
Medicines reconciliation is a way to identify and act on discrepancies in patients' medical histories and it is found to play a key role in patient safety. This review focuses on discrepancies and medical errors that occurred at point of discharge from hospital. Studies were identified through the following electronic databases: PubMed, Sciences Direct, EMBASE, Google Scholar, Cochrane Reviews and CINAHL. Each of the six databases was screened from inception to end of January 2014. To determine eligibility of the studies; the title, abstract and full manuscript were screened to find 15 articles that meet the inclusion criteria. The median number of discrepancies across the articles was found to be 60%. In average patient had between 1.2-5.3 discrepancies when leaving the hospital. More studies also found a relation between the numbers of drugs a patient was on and the number of discrepancies. The variation in the number of discrepancies found in the 15 studies could be due to the fact that some studies excluded patient taking more than 5 drugs at admission. Medication reconciliation would be a way to avoid the high number of discrepancies that was found in this literature review and thereby increase patient safety.
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