ArticlePharmacy practice
Effectiveness of a pharmacist-led quality improvement program to reduce medication errors during hospital discharge.
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- Prevalence of Polypharmacy Among Patients with Chronic Liver Disease-A Narrative Literature Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
- Evaluation of a Pharmacist-Driven Discharge Medication Reconciliation Service Pilot at a Children's Hospital.The journal of pediatric pharmacology and therapeutics : JPPT : the official journal of PPAG · 2024Article
- Methicillin-resistantQatar medical journal · 2024Article
- Perspectives of hospital pharmacists on quality improvement initiatives in patient care: A pilot study from one healthcare system in Canada.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2023Article
- Characteristics of the clinical pharmacists' interventions at the main general tertiary care hospital in Qatar.Qatar medical journal · 2023Article
- Improving bedside dispensing services through early medication discharge planning: a pre-post intervention study.Journal of pharmaceutical policy and practice · 2022Article
- Improving patient safety through a pharmacist-led medication reconciliation programme in nursing homes for the elderly in Spain.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2020Article
- The Critical Role of Ward-Based and Satellite Pharmacists in Improving Pharmaceutical Care in Hospital.Journal of research in pharmacy practiceArticle
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Abstract
backgroundPatients requiring medications during discharge are at risk of discharge medication errors that potentially cause readmission due to medication-related events.
objectiveThe objective of this study was to develop interventions to reduce percentage of patients with one or more medication errors during discharge.
methodsA pharmacist-led quality improvement (QI) program over 6 months was conducted in medical wards at a tertiary public hospital. Percentage of patients discharge with one or more medication errors was reviewed in the pre-intervention and four main improvements were developed: increase the ratio of pharmacist to patient, prioritize discharge prescription order within office hours, complete discharge medication reconciliation by ward pharmacist, set up a Centralized Discharge Medication Pre-packing Unit. Percentage of patients with one or more medication errors in both pre- and post-intervention phase were monitored using process control chart.
resultsWith the implementation of the QI program, the percentage of patients with one or more medication errors during discharge that were corrected by pharmacists significantly increased from 77.6% to 95.9% (p<0.001). Percentage of patients with one or more clinically significant error was similar in both pre and post-QI with an average of 24.8%.
conclusionsIncreasing ratio of pharmacist to patient to complete discharge medication reconciliation during discharge significantly recorded a reduction in the percentage of patients with one or more medication errors.
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