Impact of electronic medication reconciliation interventions on medication discrepancies at hospital transitions: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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Mekonnen, Alemayehu B. [1 ,2 ]
Abebe, Tamrat B. [2 ]
McLachlan, Andrew J. [1 ,3 ]
Brien, Jo-anne E. [1 ,4 ]
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[1] Univ Sydney, Fac Pharm, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[2] Univ Gondar, Sch Pharm, Gondar, Ethiopia
[3] Concord Hosp, Ctr Educ & Res Ageing, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[4] Univ New S Wales, St Vincents Hosp, Fac Med, Sch Clin, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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Electronic medication reconciliation; Medication history; Medication safety; Medication errors; Medication discrepancies; Care transition; ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS; PHYSICIAN ORDER ENTRY; PHARMACIST INTERVENTION; ADMISSION; ERRORS; DISCHARGE; PROGRAM; SAFETY; CARE; TOOL;
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10.1186/s12911-016-0353-9
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Background: Medication reconciliation has been identified as an important intervention to minimize the incidence of unintentional medication discrepancies at transitions in care. However, there is a lack of evidence for the impact of information technology on the rate and incidence of medication discrepancies identified during care transitions. This systematic review was thus, aimed to evaluate the impact of electronic medication reconciliation interventions on the occurrence of medication discrepancies at hospital transitions. Methods: Systematic literature searches were performed in MEDLINE, PubMed, CINHAL, and EMBASE from inception to November, 2015. We included published studies in English that evaluated the effect of information technology on the incidence and rate of medication discrepancies compared with usual care. Cochrane's tools were used for assessment of the quality of included studies. We performed meta-analyses using random-effects models. Results: Ten studies met our inclusion criteria; of which only one was a randomized controlled trial. Interventions were carried out at various hospital transitions (admission, 5; discharge, 2 and multiple transitions, 3 studies). Meta-analysis showed a significant reduction of 45 % in the proportion of medications with unintentional discrepancies after the use of electronic medication reconciliation (RR 0.55; 95 % CI 0.51 to 0.58). However, there was no significant reduction in either the proportion of patients with medication discrepancies or the mean number of discrepancies per patient. Drug omissions were the most common types of unintended discrepancies, and with an electronic tool a significant but heterogeneously distributed reduction of omission errors over the total number of medications reconciled have been observed (RR 0.20; 95 % CI 0.06 to 0.66). The clinical impact of unintended discrepancies was evaluated in five studies, and there was no potentially fatal error identified and most errors were minor in severity. Conclusion: Medication reconciliation supported by an electronic tool was able to minimize the incidence of medications with unintended discrepancy, mainly drug omissions. But, this did not consistently reduce other process outcomes, although there was a lack of rigorous design to conform these results.
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