Open Access<p>Hospital-Wide Medication Reconciliation Program: Error Identification, Cost-Effectiveness, and Detecting High-Risk Individuals on Admission</p>
Author(s) -
Dustin Uhlenhopp,
Oscar Aguilar,
Dong Dai,
Arka P. Ghosh,
Michael Shaw,
Chandan Mitra
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
integrated pharmacy research and practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2230-5254
DOI - 10.2147/iprp.s269857
Subject(s) - medicine , observational study , technician , pharmacy , emergency medicine , dosing , logistic regression , adverse effect , family medicine , electrical engineering , engineering
Medication reconciliation (MR) on admission has potential to reduce negative patient outcomes. The objectives of this prospective observational study were to 1) measure the impact a hospital-wide MR program has on home medication error identification at hospital admission, 2) demonstrate cost-effectiveness of this program, and 3) identify risk factors placing individual patients at higher risk for medication discrepancies.