Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings

CONCLUSIONS: Low- to moderate-certainty evidence suggests that, compared to usual care, medication reconciliation, CPOE/CDSS, barcoding, feedback and dispensing systems in surgical wards may reduce medication errors and ADEs. However, the results are imprecise for some outcomes related to medication reconciliation and CPOE/CDSS. The evidence for other interventions is very uncertain. Powered and methodologically sound studies are needed to address the identified evidence gaps. Innovative, synergistic strategies -including those that involve patients- should also be evaluated.PMID:34822165 | DOI:10.1002/14651858.CD009985.pub2

Source: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews - November 25, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Agust ín Ciapponi Simon E Fernandez Nievas Mariana Seijo Mar ía Belén Rodríguez Valeria Vietto Herney A Garc ía-Perdomo Sacha Virgilio Ana V Fajreldines Josep Tost Christopher J Rose Ezequiel Garcia-Elorrio Source Type: research