Objectives Pharmacists play a role in providing medication reconciliation. However, data on
effectiveness on patients' clinical outcomes appear inconclusive. Thus, the aim of this study …

What is known and objective Medication reconciliation is recognized as an important tool for
the prevention of medication discrepancies and subsequent patient harm at care transitions …

Background: About 1 in 5 Medicare fee-for-service patients discharged from the hospital is
rehospitalized within 30 days. Beginning in 2013, hospitals with high risk-standardized …

Medication reconciliation identifies and resolves unintentional discrepancies between
patients' medication lists across transitions in care. The purpose of this review is to …

Health and care services have failed to keep up with this dramatic demographic shift. The
NHS has designed hospital medical specialties around single organ diseases. Primary care …

Background Provision of high quality transitional care is a challenge for health care
providers in many western countries. This systematic review was conducted to (1) identify …

In patients with heart failure (HF), use of 30-day rehospitalization as a healthcare metric and
increased pressure to provide value-based care compel healthcare providers to improve …

Purpose To systematically review the available evidence about hospital discharge
communication practices and identify which practices were preferred by patients and …

The objective of this review was to evaluate existing transition-of-care models and identify
common themes that may minimize exacerbation and rehospitalization, and improve quality …

Background: Medication discrepancies are unintended differences between medication
regimens (ie, between a patient's home regimen and medications prescribed on admission …