Medication Reconciliation Process in Clinical Practice

Centre Hospitalier de Saint-Denis

Status: Completed

Conditions: Geriatrics; Patient Safety; Pharmaceutical Services; Medication Reconciliation; Hospital Readmission; Transitions of Care

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT07001137

0014_CASA

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study looks at how reviewing and confirming a patient's medications during a hospital stay can help reduce problems after they go home. It focuses on patients aged 75 and older who were admitted to a short-stay geriatric unit. The researchers compared three groups:

• Patients who did not receive any medication reconciliation (CTM),
• Patients who received CTM only at hospital admission,
• Patients who received CTM at both admission and discharge.

The goal was to see if this process could lower the number of hospital readmissions, emergency room visits, and deaths within six months after discharge. The study is based on real data from a hospital in 2019 and was conducted by pharmacists and doctors working together.

Enrollment: 386 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients admitted to the short-stay geriatric unit of Casanova Hospital Between January 1st and August 31st, 2019

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who were discharged and then readmitted to the short-stay unit after a brief transfer to another unit (e.g., surgery, internal medicine, or intensive care).

Trial design

386 participants in 3 patient groups

Patients who did not receive any medication reconciliation (CTM)

Patients who received CTM only at hospital admission

Patients who received CTM at both admission and discharge