Improving admission medication reconciliation with pharmacists or pharmacy technicians in the emergency department: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Admission medication history (AMH) errors frequently cause medication order errors and patient harm.

Objective

To quantify AMH error reduction achieved when pharmacy staff obtain AMHs before admission medication orders (AMO) are placed.

Methods

This was a three-arm randomised controlled trial of 306 inpatients. In one intervention arm, pharmacists, and in the second intervention arm, pharmacy technicians, obtained initial AMHs prior to admission. They obtained and reconciled medication information from multiple sources. All arms, including the control arm, received usual AMH care, which included variation in several common processes. The primary outcome was severity-weighted mean AMH error score. To detect AMH errors, all patients received reference standar

SUBMITTER: Pevnick JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5912995 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature