MR is the process of creating and maintaining an, as accurate as possible, overview
of patient's actual medication use, in order to prescribe and provide correct medication
to the patient at all transition points and avoid unintended medication discrepancies
[
[1]
]. However, MR services are time consuming and only a relatively small proportion of
patients are affected by clinically significant unintended discrepancies [
- Institute For Healthcare Improvement
Reconcile medications at all transition points.
http://www.ihi.org/knowledge/Pages/Changes/ReconcileMedicationsatAllTransitionPoints.aspx
Date: 2011
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2
,
3
]. This makes a MR service difficult to implement. Targeting high risk patients might
increase the efficiency of MR services facilitating implementation. Determinants for
high risk patients are however sparsely available. Therefore, we executed a large,
multi-centre, retrospective cohort study to assess determinants for MR interventions
both on admission and discharge. Secondly, the type and frequency of MR interventions
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 13, 2017
Accepted:
September 4,
2017
Received:
August 20,
2017
Footnotes
☆All authors declare to have no conflict of interest concerning this publication.
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