Unintended medication discrepancies at the time of hospital admission.
By P. Cornish, S. Knowles, Romina Marchesano, Vincent Tam, S. Shadowitz, D. Juurlink, E. Etchells. Archives of Internal Medicine, 2005
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Subfields: Emergency Medical Services, Geriatrics and Gerontology, Health Information Management
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- N. Fine
- P. Cornish
Citations in the corpus
- Promoting effective transitions of care at hospital discharge: a review of key issues for hospitalists. (2007, background): “In 2 recent studies, 54% of patients experienced at least 1 unintended medication discrepancy on admission to the hospital, and 39%-45% of these discrepancies were considered a potential threat to the patient.(44,45) At discharge, differences between the prescribed medication regimen and the prehosp”
- A comprehensive pharmacist intervention to reduce morbidity in patients 80 years or older: a randomized controlled trial. (2009, background): “The most frequent finding is omission of drugs, followed by differing dosages and recording of drugs no longer used by the patient.(2,10,11,15) Several attempts have been made worldwide to solve these DRPs.”
- Coordinating care--a perilous journey through the health care system. (2008, background): “At a Canadian hospital in 2003, 54% of patients on at least 4 pre-admission medications had a discrepancy between their pre-admission medications and their admitting medication orders; 39% were potentially serious and almost hal f the discrepancies involved omission of a regular pre-admission medica”
- Frequency, type and clinical importance of medication history errors at admission to hospital: a systematic review (2005, methodology): “Five studies had a prospective design and enrolled consecutive patients.(4,5,10,19,23) Seven studies were retrospective.”
- Role of pharmacist counseling in preventing adverse drug events after hospitalization. (2006, neutral): “Age, mean (SD), y 60.7 (17.2) 57.7 (15.9) No. of medications at discharge, median (IQR) 8 (5.5-10) 8 ( 5-13 )”