Evaluation of Pharmacist-Initiated Discharge Medication Reconciliation and Patient Counseling Procedures in the Emergency Department
试验速览
- 阶段
- Unknown
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- one
- 入组人数
- 100
研究概览
简要总结
Among 81 patients, 42 (52%) patients were randomly assigned to the intervention group, and 39 (48%) patients to the control group. At day 30, The mean number of medication discrepancies was significantly lower in the intervention group (p = .000). 63.6% of patients in the control group had at least one medication discrepancy identified. The most common type of discrepancy was drug commission and drug omission; they mostly occurred in the control group and this difference was statistically significant. 10 patients from the control group reported concerns on day 30, as compared to none from the intervention group (p = 0.003). Overall, patients from the intervention group had a better understanding of their medications that was statistically significant.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized controlled trial
- 主要目的
- Health services research
- 盲法
- Open (masking not used)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 至 100（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Participants were eligible if they met the following inclusion criteria: adult patients (=18 years old) who were discharged from the ED with at least one newly prescribed discharge medication.
排除标准
- •Key exclusion criteria consisted of patients who were admitted from ED to LAUMCRH as inpatients, transferred to another hospital, or did not provide consent to participate in the study.