Bravo P, Martinez L, Metzger S, Da Costa Noble E, Meckenstock R, Greder-Belan A, Parnet L, Samdjee F, Azan S. [Medication reconciliation in a department of internal medicine and infectious and tropical diseases: Feedback after one year practice].
Rev Med Interne 2018;
40:291-296. [PMID:
30172598 DOI:
10.1016/j.revmed.2018.08.003]
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Abstract
Since April 2015, medication reconciliation is performed in our Department. The objective of this study is to assess the impact of this activity on patients' care after one year of practice.
METHODS
All patients who received medication reconciliation between April-October 2015 and June-December 2016 were included in this retrospective study. Undocumented unintentional discrepancies (DNIND) which result from the comparison between the patient's usual treatments and the medication prescribed at admission were collected. Then, a multidisciplinary discussion was initiated to correct them. The gravity of each DNIND was determined a posteriori.
RESULTS
A statistical comparison between the two studies (2015 vs. 2016) showed the following significant results: decrease in DNIND (0.9 vs. 0.43), in percentage of patients with at least one DNIND (43% vs 31% P <5.10-6), in reconciliation time (43min vs. 23min) and no significant difference in the distribution of DNIND typology. The main therapeutic classes are: metabolism-diabetes-nutrition (21%), cardiology (18%), pneumology (17%) and neurology-psychiatry (15%). Drugs mainly concerned with DNIND are inhaled anti-asthmatics (13% of the medicines with DNIND), vitamins (8% of DNIND) and the levetiracetam antiepileptic drug (5% of DNIND).
CONCLUSION
The implementation of the reconciliation medication allowed a significant reduction of the DNIND that permits to improve the patient healthcare pathway.
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