Open AccessMedicines reconciliation in primary care: a study evaluating the quality of medication-related information provided on discharge from secondary care
Author(s) -
Chetan Shah,
Jane Hough,
Yogini Jani
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
european journal of hospital pharmacy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.313
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2047-9964
pISSN - 2047-9956
DOI - 10.1136/ejhpharm-2018-001613
Subject(s) - medicine , medical prescription , documentation , family medicine , medical emergency , retrospective cohort study , emergency medicine , nursing , surgery , computer science , programming language
Medicines reconciliation is an effective way of reducing errors at transitions of care. Much of the focus has been on medicines reconciliation at point of admission to hospital. Our objective was to evaluate medicines reconciliation after discharge from hospital by assessing the quality of information regarding medicines within discharge summaries and determining whether the information provided regarding medicines changes were acted on within 7 days of receiving the discharge information.