The Impact Of Clinical Pharmacists Medication Reconciliation Upon Patients Admission To Reduce Medication Discrepancies.

Alexandria University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medication Reconcilitation Upon Hospital Admission

Treatments: Other: medication reconciliation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04395443

0304494

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is a quazai one arm study shows the impact of the role of the clinical pharmacists through medication reconciliation to patients admitted to the emergency department .The main aim is to show if the pharmacists intervention is associated with establishing a complete drug history list than the list already presented in the patient file and taken by the physician .Then a description of the medication errors detected will be done .

Full description

It is a quazai one arm study in which the pre phase is the detection of the complete and accurate drug history list already presented in the patient file and taken by the physician and the post phase is the detection of the complete and accurate drug history list taken by the clinical pharmacists after medication reconciliation for the same patients.

medication reconciliation will be done as a full diseases and preadmission medications history will be taken from the patients or the family through interviews, revising previous prescriptions and hospital records.

• Preadmission medication history will include medications trade names, doses, frequency and route of administration and treatment duration and also will include the consumption of vitamins or herbs.
• The medication errors will be detected ,calculated and classified according to medication at transitions and clinical handoffs (MATCH) toolkit for medication reconciliation and NCC MERP index.

Enrollment: 161 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with one or more chronic disease / drug.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who cannot communicate or have no family members.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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161 participants in 1 patient group

patients admitted to emergency department

Experimental group

Description:

the intervention is the medication reconciliation

Treatment:

Other: medication reconciliation