Assessment of requests for medication-related follow-up after hospital discharge, and the relation to unplanned hospital revisits, in older patients: a multicentre retrospective chart review.

Henrik Cam; Thomas Gerardus Hendrik Kempen; Helena Eriksson; Kanar Abdulreda; Kristin Franzon; Ulrika Gillespie

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Assessment of requests for medication-related follow-up after hospital discharge, and the relation to unplanned hospital revisits, in older patients: a multicentre retrospective chart review.

December 8, 2021

Cam H, Kempen TGH, Eriksson H, et al. BMC Geriatr. 2021;21(1):618.

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Poor communication between hospital and primary care providers can lead to adverse events, such as hospital readmission. In this study of older adults who required medication-related follow-up with their primary care provider, the discharging provider only sent an adequate request for 60% of patients. Of those patients that did not have an adequate request, 14% had a related hospital revisit within 6 months.

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