Pharmacist Discharge Medication Reconciliation Study

Alberta Health services

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medication Reconciliation

Treatments: Procedure: MRS

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01226589

23851

Details and patient eligibility

About

Adverse drug events can occur commonly due to medication errors during the transition of care in a health care facility. Medication reconciliation is the process of comparing medications and providing an accurate medication list as a resource for prescribers, which is currently only being done upon inpatient admission at the CCI. The purpose of this study is to see if pharmacist medication reconciliation at discharge reduces unintentional medication discrepancies for inpatient discharges.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Cancer inpatients under the care of Dr. Follett or Dr. Candler
• Cancer inpatients to be discharged from the CCI
• Patients >18 years of age
• Patients that are taking >1 medications or herbals total at home.

Exclusion criteria

• Cancer inpatients that are considered radioactive or in "hot rooms" (ie. Selectron patients or patients receiving radiation treatment for thyroid)
• Patients that do not remain in hospital >72 hours
• Patients without a home phone number or equivalent contact number.
• Language barrier (patients unable to speak or understand English).
• Patients that are readmitted and already included into the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)