Medication-related hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge: prevalence, preventability, type of medication errors and risk factors.

Elien B Uitvlugt; Marjo J. A Janssen; Carl E. H Siegert; Eva L Kneepkens; Bart J. F van den Bemt; Patricia M. L. A van den Bemt; Fatma Karapinar-Carkit

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Medication-related hospital readmissions within 30 days of discharge: prevalence, preventability, type of medication errors and risk factors.

May 26, 2021

Uitvlugt EB, Janssen MJA, Siegert CEH, et al. Front Pharmacol. 2021;12:567424.

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Identifying and reducing potentially preventable readmissions is a patient safety priority. This study found that 16% of readmissions at one teaching hospital in the Netherlands were medication-related; of those, 40% were considered potentially preventable. Preventable readmissions were attributed to prescribing errors, non-adherence, and handoff or transition errors.

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