Admission Medication Reconciliations in Pediatric Patients Admitted to an Inpatient Psychiatry Unit

ABSTRACT:

OBJECTIVE

Medication errors resulting in adverse drug events may occur during transition of care. Most can be prevented with a medication reconciliation. California Senate Bill 1254 requires a pharmacist to perform an admission medication reconciliation (AMR) to obtain an accurate medication list for each high-risk patient upon hospital admission. Adult patient literature reveals that antidepressant, antipsychotic, and mood-stabilizing drugs are high-risk medications likely to cause errors. Therefore, the purpose of this analysis is to determine if pediatric psychiatry inpatients should be considered high risk, meriting an additional AMR by the pharmacy team.

METHODS

This was a retrospective, single-center analysis of pediatric patients admitted to the inpatient psychiatr

SUBMITTER: Van Nguyen A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9268117 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature