The problem with medication reconciliation

‘The Problem with...’ series covers controversial topics related to efforts to improve healthcare quality, including widely recommended but deceptively difficult strategies for improvement and pervasive problems that seem to resist solution. Medication reconciliation: a brief summary of the evidence, and the problem with generalising that evidence Medication reconciliation (‘med rec’, as it is often called) refers to the ‘process of identifying the most accurate list of all medications a patient is taking ... and using this list to provide correct medications for patients anywhere within the health system’.1 Two recent systematic reviews summarised the evidence for med rec interventions, finding that several med rec interventions reduced medication history errors and errors in patients’ admission and discharge medication regimens.2 3 Despite documented efficacy in reducing errors, there are caveats. An earlier literature review showed that the clinical significance of medication history...

Source: BMJ Quality and Safety - August 16, 2016 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Pevnick, J. M., Shane, R., Schnipper, J. L. Tags: The problem with... Source Type: research