ArticleTherapeutic advances in drug safety2020
Effects of stratified medication review in high-risk patients at admission to hospital: a randomised controlled trial.
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- Medication Management Strategies at Hospital Admission: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Clinical and translational science · 2026Pooled it
- Medication review in hospitalised patients to reduce morbidity and mortality.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- Detection tools for prediction and identification of adverse drug reactions in older patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2022Pooled it
- Enhancing patient stratification methods for medication review during acute admissions.British journal of clinical pharmacology · 2025Article
- The Impact of Pharmacist Medication Reviews on Geriatric Patients: A Scoping Review.Korean journal of family medicine · 2024Article
- A Trial-Based Cost-Utility Analysis of a Medication Optimization Intervention Versus Standard Care in Older Adults.Drugs & aging · 2023Article
- [Scoring tool to identify patients at increased risk for drug-related problems: results of a point prevalence study at hospital admission].Deutsche medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundPatients at high risk of medication errors will potentially benefit most from medication reviews. An algorithm, MERIS, can identify the patients who are at highest risk of medication errors. The aim of this study was to examine the effects of performing stratified medication reviews on patients who according to MERIS were at highest risk of medication errors.
methodsA randomised controlled trial was performed at the Acute Admissions Unit, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark. Patients were included at admission to the hospital and were randomised to control or intervention. The intervention consisted of stratified medication review at admission on patients with a high MERIS score. Clinical pharmacists and clinical pharmacologists performed the medication reviews; the clinical pharmacologists performed the reviews on patients with the highest MERIS score. The primary outcome measure was the number of prescribing errors during the hospitalisation. Secondary outcomes included self-experienced quality of life, health-care utilisation and mortality measured at follow-up 90 days after discharge.
resultsA total of 375 patients were included, of which medication reviews were performed in 64 patients. The medication reviews addressed 63 prescribing errors in 37 patients and 60 other drug-related problems. No difference in the number of prescribing errors during hospitalisation between the intervention group (
conclusionA stratified medication review approach based on the individual patient's risk of medication errors did not show impact on the chosen outcomes. PLAIN LANGUAGE SUMMARY:
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