ArticlePharmacy (Basel, Switzerland)2019
Pharmacist-Physician Collaboration to Improve the Accuracy of Medication Information in Electronic Medical Discharge Summaries: Effectiveness and Sustainability.
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- Effect of integrated medicines management on quality of discharge medication information-a secondary endpoint in a randomized controlled trial.International journal for quality in health care : journal of the International Society for Quality in Health Care · 2024Trial
- A randomised trial of pharmacist-led discharge prescribing in an Australian geriatric evaluation and management service.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2021Trial
- Factors contributing to electronic prescribing errors in healthcare settings: a qualitative study.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2026Article
- Identifying Medication Review Topics to Be Documented in a Structured Form in Electronic Health Record Systems: Delphi Consensus Survey.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Article
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- Continuity of medication information transfer and continuous medication supply during hospital-to-home transitions - nationwide surveys in hospital and community pharmacies after implementing new legal requirements in Germany.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Achieving safe medication management during transitions of care from hospital: time for a stewardship approach.Australian prescriber · 2024Article
- The complexities of communication at hospital discharge of older patients: a qualitative study of healthcare professionals' views.BMC health services research · 2023Article
- Impact of an ambulatory care pharmacist on provider relative value units in a rural clinic.Exploratory research in clinical and social pharmacy · 2022Article
- Exploring pharmacist involvement in the discharge medicines reconciliation process and information transfer to primary care: an observational study.International journal of clinical pharmacy · 2022Observational
- Personal Electronic Records of Medications (PERMs) for medication reconciliation at care transitions: a rapid realist review.BMC medical informatics and decision making · 2021Review
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Abstract
Inaccurate or missing medication information in medical discharge summaries is a widespread and intractable problem. This study evaluated the effectiveness and sustainability of an intervention in which ward-based hospital pharmacists reviewed, contributed and verified medication information in electronic discharge summaries (EDSs) in collaboration with physicians. Retrospective audits of randomly selected EDSs were conducted on seven wards at a major public hospital before and after implementation of the intervention and repeated two years later on four wards where the intervention was incorporated into usual pharmacist care. EDSs for 265 patients (prescribed a median of nine discharge medications) were assessed across the three time points. Pharmacists verified the EDSs for 47% patients in the first post-intervention audit and 68% patients in the second post-intervention audit. Following the intervention, the proportion of patients with one or more clinically significant discharge medication list discrepancy fell from 40/93 (43%) to 14/92 (15%),
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