Hospital-Wide Medication Reconciliation Program: Error Identification Cost-Effectiveness and Detecting High-Risk Individuals on Admission

摘要

Medication reconciliation (MR) on admission has potential to reduce negative patient outcomes. The objectives of this prospective observational study were to 1) measure the impact a hospital-wide MR program has on home medication error identification at hospital admission, 2) demonstrate cost-effectiveness of this program, and 3) identify risk factors placing individual patients at higher risk for medication discrepancies.