Improving medication reconciliation compliance in a tertiary care hospital of a developing country: a quality improvement initiative using the PDSA cycle.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Medication reconciliation is a critical process for ensuring patient safety by preventing medication errors, especially at hospital admission. Despite its importance, compliance with this process in our internal medicine ward was alarmingly low, with an initial baseline of only 4% compliance in January 2019. This prompted the initiation of a quality improvement (QI) project aimed at improving adherence to the medication reconciliation process.

Methods

A team-based approach was implemented, including junior doctors, nurses, pharmacists and the hospital's information technology team. The plan-do-study-act (PDSA) methodology was used to design, test and implement interventions. Key interventions included educational sessions for junior doctors, integration of pharmac

SUBMITTER: Sabeen Ahmed A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12519651 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature