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Medication Reconciliation

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•Device-related Complications (1)

•Diagnostic Errors (3)

•Identification Errors (4)

•Discontinuities, Gaps, and Hand-Off Problems (109)

•Medication Safety (198)

•Medical Complications (5)

•Nonsurgical Procedural Complications (1)

•Surgical Complications (4)

•Transfusion Complications (1)

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•Asia (1)

•Australia and New Zealand (8)

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•Clinical Guideline (1)

•Journal Article (159)

•Legislation/Regulation (3)

•Newspaper/Magazine Article (32)

•Press Release/Announcement (1)

•Special or Theme Issue (1)

•Tools/Toolkit (9)

•Web Resource (2)

Error Types

•Epidemiology of Errors and Adverse Events (77)

•Active Errors (31)

•Latent Errors (11)

•Near Miss (2)

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Medication Reconciliation

Clinical Areas

•Medicine (141)

•Nursing (8)

•Pharmacy (94)

Target Audience

•Health Care Providers (175)

•Health Care Executives and Administrators (163)

•Non-Health Care Professionals (41)

•Patients (14)

Setting of Care

•Hospitals (146)

•Psychiatric Facilities (1)

•Residential Facilities (10)

•Ambulatory Care (47)

•Outpatient Surgery (2)

•Patient Transport (1)

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STUDY

Impact of a pharmacist-facilitated hospital discharge program: a quasi-experimental study.

Walker PC, Bernstein SJ, Tucker Jones JN, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:2003-2010.

STUDY

Impact of a pharmacist on medication reconciliation on patient admission to a Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Strunk LB, Matson AW, Steinke D. Hosp Pharm. 2008;43:643-649.

STUDY

Medication details documented on hospital discharge: cross-sectional observational study of factors associated with medication non-reconciliation.

Grimes TC, Duggan CA, Delaney TP, et al. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2011;71:449-457.

STUDY

Nurse–pharmacist collaboration on medication reconciliation prevents potential harm.

Feldman LS, Costa LL, Feroli ER Jr, et al. J Hosp Med. 2012;7:396-401.

STUDY

Discrepancies between home medications listed at hospital admission and reported medical conditions.

Slain D, Kincaid SE, Dunsworth TS. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2008;6:161-166.

STUDY

Results of the Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission.

Gleason KM, McDaniel MR, Feinglass J, et al. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25:441-447.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation for reducing drug-discrepancy adverse events.

Boockvar KS, Carlson Lacorte H, Giambanco V, Fridman B, Siu A. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2006;4:236-243.

COMMENTARY

Quality improvement through implementation of discharge order reconciliation.

Lu Y, Clifford P, Bjorneby A, et al. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013;70:815-820.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation during internal hospital transfer and impact of computerized prescriber order entry.

Lee JY, Leblanc K, Fernandes OA, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2010;44:1887-1895.

COMMENTARY

Ten years after the IOM report: engaging residents in quality and patient safety by creating a house staff quality council.

Fleischut PM, Evans AS, Nugent WC, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:89-94.

COMMENTARY

Implementing online medication reconciliation at a large academic medical center.

Bails D, Clayton K, Roy K, Cantor MN. Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf. 2008;34:499-508.

STUDY

Medication reconciliation accuracy and patient understanding of intended medication changes on hospital discharge.

Ziaeian B, Araujo KLB, Van Ness PH, Horwitz LI. J Gen Intern Med. 2012;27:1513-1520.

COMMENTARY

The role of housestaff in implementing medication reconciliation on admission at an academic medical center.

Evans AS, Lazar EJ, Tiase VL, et al. Am J Med Qual. 2011;26:39-42.

STUDY

Effect of admission medication reconciliation on adverse drug events from admission medication changes.

Boockvar KS, Blum S, Kugler A, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2011;171:860-861.

REVIEW

Medication reconciliation during transitions of care as a patient safety strategy: a systematic review.

Kwan JL, Lo L, Sampson M, Shojania KG. Ann Intern Med. 2013;158(5 Pt 2):397-403.

STUDY

Medicines reconciliation using a shared electronic health care record.

Moore P, Armitage G, Wright J, Dobrzanski S, Ansari N, Hammond I, Scally A. J Patient Saf. 2011;7:147-153.

STUDY

Effect of a pharmacist intervention on clinically important medication errors after hospital discharge: a randomized trial.

Kripalani S, Roumie CL, Dalal AK, et al; PILL-CVD (Pharmacist Intervention for Low Literacy in Cardiovascular Disease) Study Group. Ann Intern Med. 2012;157:1-10.

STUDY

Improving the discharge process by embedding a discharge facilitator in a resident team.

Finn KM, Heffner R, Chang Y, et al. J Hosp Med. 2011;6:494-500.

STUDY

Effect of an electronic medication reconciliation application and process redesign on potential adverse drug events: a cluster-randomized trial.

Schnipper JL, Hamann C, Ndumele CD, et al. Arch Intern Med. 2009;169:771-780.

NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE ARTICLE

Survey results: community liaison programs to decrease hospital readmissions.

ISMP Medication Safey Alert! Acute Care Edition. March 7, 2013;18:1-3.

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