Standardizing medication reconciliation in a pediatric emergency department.

Sarika Sheth; Mario Bialostozky; Kathy Hollenbach; Lindsay Heitzman; Deven O’Crump; Seema Mishra; Gregory Langley; Kristen Santiago; Fareed Saleh; Glenn Billman; Amy Bryl

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Standardizing medication reconciliation in a pediatric emergency department.

February 14, 2024

Sheth S, Bialostozky M, Hollenbach K, et al. Pediatrics. 2024;153(2):e2023061964.

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Medication reconciliation has the potential to reduce medication errors during transitions of care. This study used educational and electronic health record-based interventions to increase completed medication reconciliation in one health systems’ pediatric emergency department (ED) and urgent care (UC) settings. Post-implementation, completed medication reconciliation in UCs increased from 25% to 82% within four months; in the pediatric ED, completed reviews increased from 26% to 64% within 18 months.

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