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Abstract Number: 16
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Post hospital discharge review during the transition from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) is critical to avoid medication errors, improve patient outcomes and reduce hospital readmissions (1-3). Despite increased integration of electronic health records (EHR) across health entities, communication gaps and discharge-related medication errors still persist (2,4). These challenges can be more predominant […]
Oral Presentations
Abstract Number: 16
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Post hospital discharge review during the transition from hospital to skilled nursing facility (SNF) is critical to avoid medication errors, improve patient outcomes and reduce hospital readmissions (1-3). Despite increased integration of electronic health records (EHR) across health entities, communication gaps and discharge-related medication errors still persist (2,4). These challenges can be more predominant […]
Abstract Number: 52
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Medication errors are common, with more than half of patients estimated to have greater than or equal to one unintended medication discrepancy at hospital admission. Medication reconciliation can identify errors. Although there has been significant investigation into the most effective logistical strategies for performing medicine reconciliation within the healthcare system, there is little investigation […]
Abstract Number: 117
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Determining the quality of medication reconciliation (MR) is a laborious and time-intensive process, often involving chart review and detailed patient interviews. Purpose: To identify meaningful, measurable process measures for high-quality MR obtainable from electronic health records (EHR), and to determine if performance on these measures responded to a campaign focused on improving MR. Description: […]
Abstract Number: 154
Hospital Medicine 2017, May 1-4, 2017; Las Vegas, Nev.
Background: Up to 67% of patients have at least one medication error on admission to the hospital with over a quarter of hospital prescribing errors attributed to incomplete medication histories at admission. Key aspects of successful interventions to date include intensive pharmacy staff involvement. However, pharmacists are in short supply in many hospitals. Methods: A […]
Abstract Number: 165
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Accurate medication reconciliation during transitions of care can decrease medication related adverse drug events. The Joint Commission has prioritized medication reconciliation as one of the national patient safety goals. Effective pharmacist-physician-patient collaboration can improve the medication reconciliation process and thus medication safety for hospitalized patients Purpose: 1. Develop a standardized provider-pharmacist discharge medication reconciliation […]
Abstract Number: 190
Hospital Medicine 2016, March 6-9, San Diego, Calif.
Background: Medication discrepancies, defined as unexplained differences between documented medication regimens, are highly prevalent in the hospital setting and an important contributor to adverse drug events. In the hospital setting, 27% of all prescribing errors occur as a result of inaccurate medication histories at the time of admission. Pharmacist-recorded medication histories have been shown to result […]
Abstract Number: 210
SHM Converge 2023
Background: Errors in medication reconciliation frequently occur at transitions of care. Patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities (SNFs) are particularly vulnerable to the consequences of these mistakes. An interprofessional team at UVA Health implemented a longitudinal quality improvement (QI) project to reduce medication reconciliation errors for patients discharging from acute care medicine services to SNF. […]
Abstract Number: 227
Hospital Medicine 2018; April 8-11; Orlando, Fla.
Background: Adverse drug events (ADEs) result in more than 770,000 injuries and deaths each year and cost up to $5.6 million per hospital, depending on size. The hospital admission is often where the patient is most vulnerable to ADEs. Medication reconciliation on admission is a formal process by which efforts are made to ascertain a […]
Abstract Number: 246
SHM Converge 2024
Background: Multiple safety reports were reviewed for missed doses of critical medications on admission to the inpatient rehabilitation units at a large academic medical center. It was found that providers were inconsistently or incorrectly using the admission medication reconciliation (AdmMedRec) functionality in EHR that could have prevented these errors.Many hospitals struggle with AdmMedRec due to […]