Medication reconciliation performed by pharmacy technicians at the time of preoperative screening.

Patricia Mla van den Bemt; Sifra van den Broek; Alfons K. van Nunen; Johannes Bm Harbers; Albert W. Lenderink

Study

Medication reconciliation performed by pharmacy technicians at the time of preoperative screening.

July 29, 2009

van den Bemt PM, van den Broek S, van Nunen AK, et al. Ann Pharmacother. 2009;43(5):868-74.

View more articles from the same authors.

This study found that pharmacy technicians led to significant decreases in medication discrepancies.

PubMed citation

Available at

Related Resources From the Same Author(s)

Effect of a pharmacy-based centralized intravenous admixture service on the prevalence of medication errors: a before-and-after study.

August 10, 2022

The effect of a transitional pharmaceutical care program on the occurrence of ADEs after discharge from hospital in patients with polypharmacy.

April 27, 2022

Comparison of potential risk factors for medication errors with and without patient harm.

August 18, 2010

The influence that electronic prescribing has on medication errors and preventable adverse drug events: an interrupted time-series study.

December 2, 2009

Preventable hospital admissions related to medication (HARM): cost analysis of the HARM study.

March 1, 2011

The impact of type of manual medication cart filling method on the frequency of medication administration errors: a prospective before and after study.

February 23, 2011

Anticoagulant medication errors in hospitals and primary care: a cross-sectional study.

November 14, 2018

May 26, 2021

The effect of prescriber education on medication-related patient harm in the hospital: a systematic review.

March 8, 2017

The effect of medication reconciliation via a patient portal on medication discrepancies: a randomized noninferiority study.

January 26, 2022

Impact of performance and information feedback on medical interns' confidence-accuracy calibration.

April 3, 2024

Do malpractice claim clinical case vignettes enhance diagnostic accuracy and acceptance in clinical reasoning education during GP training?

September 20, 2023

Medication administration errors in nursing homes using an automated medication dispensing system.

July 15, 2009

Self-reported uptake of recommendations after dissemination of medication incident alerts.

August 22, 2012

Frequency of and risk factors for preventable medication-related hospital admissions in the Netherlands.

October 1, 2008

How would final-year medical students perform if their skill-based prescription assessment was real life?

February 22, 2023

Effect of automated unit dose dispensing with barcode scanning on medication administration errors: an uncontrolled before-and-after study.

December 1, 2021

Classification of medication incidents associated with information technology.

October 9, 2013

Experiences with Lean Six Sigma as improvement strategy to reduce parenteral medication administration errors and associated potential risk of harm.

July 26, 2017

Do junior doctors make more prescribing errors than experienced doctors when prescribing electronically using a computerised physician order entry system combined with a clinical decision support system? A cross-sectional study.

October 18, 2023

Reliability of the assessment of preventable adverse drug events in daily clinical practice.

April 2, 2008

Effect of medication reconciliation with and without patient counseling on the number of pharmaceutical interventions among patients discharged from the hospital.

August 19, 2009

Effect of medication reconciliation on patient reported potential adverse events after hospital discharge.

September 8, 2021

Do patients' disruptive behaviours influence the accuracy of a doctor's diagnosis? A randomised experiment.

March 23, 2016

Preventable and non-preventable adverse drug events in hospitalized patients: a prospective chart review in the Netherlands.

November 9, 2011

Prevalence of medication transfer errors in nephrology patients and potential risk factors.

November 6, 2019

Identifying and prioritizing educational content from a malpractice claims database for clinical reasoning education in the vocational training of general practitioners.

October 4, 2023

Association between workarounds and medication administration errors in bar-code-assisted medication administration in hospitals.

April 25, 2018

Prescribing errors with low-molecular-weight heparins.

October 13, 2021

Effect on diagnostic accuracy of cognitive reasoning tools for the workplace setting: systematic review and meta-analysis.

September 14, 2022

Differences in medication reconciliation interventions between six hospitals: a mixed method study.

June 29, 2022

Risk factors for clinically relevant deviations in patients' medication lists reported by patients in personal health records: a prospective cohort study in a hospital setting.

March 2, 2022

Drug administration errors in an institution for individuals with intellectual disability: an observational study.

August 29, 2007

Delayed recognition of deterioration of patients in general wards is mostly caused by human related monitoring failures: a root cause analysis of unplanned ICU admissions.

September 7, 2016

Medication errors: the impact of prescribing and transcribing errors on preventable harm in hospitalised patients.

March 4, 2009

January 19, 2011

Factors associated with workarounds in barcode-assisted medication administration in hospitals.

August 26, 2020

Cognitive diagnostic error in internal medicine.

April 24, 2013

Systematic literature review on the effectiveness and safety of paediatric hospital-at-home care as a substitute for hospital care.

May 17, 2023

Why do doctors make mistakes? A study of the role of salient distracting clinical features.

December 11, 2013

Effectiveness and efficiency of root cause analysis in medicine.

February 27, 2008

Improving clinical handover between intensive care unit and general ward professionals at intensive care unit discharge.

March 18, 2015

Disclosing errors and adverse events in the intensive care unit.

April 5, 2006

Exposure to media information about a disease can cause doctors to misdiagnose similar-looking clinical cases.

March 12, 2014

'Providing good and comfortable care by building a bond of trust': nurses views regarding their role in patients' perception of safety in the intensive care unit.

November 11, 2015

Effect of availability bias and reflective reasoning on diagnostic accuracy among internal medicine residents.

October 6, 2010

The use of "lives saved" measures in nurse staffing and patient safety research: statistical considerations.

March 30, 2011

Improving medical residents’ self-assessment of their diagnostic accuracy: does feedback help?

February 2, 2022

Is it rational to pursue zero suicides among patients in health care?

March 6, 2019

Time-dependent drug–drug interaction alerts in care provider order entry: software may inhibit medication error reductions.

December 2, 2009

Medical error: the second victim.

November 21, 2012

Critical incident stress debriefing after adverse patient safety events.

August 9, 2017

Safety culture in Indian hospitals: a cultural adaptation of the Safety Attitudes Questionnaire.

May 21, 2014

What can patient safety teach us about clinician burnout?

January 8, 2020

Safety perceptions of health care leaders in 2 Canadian academic acute care centers.

June 7, 2017

Prescribing errors in post-COVID-19 patients: prevalence, severity, and risk factors in patients visiting a post-COVID-19 outpatient clinic.

March 23, 2022

Clinician mindfulness and patient safety.

December 15, 2010

Close calls in patient safety: should we be paying closer attention?

May 15, 2013

Medical error, incident investigation and the second victim: doing better but feeling worse?

April 4, 2012

Does one size fit all? Assessing the need for organizational second victim support programs.

April 7, 2021

Evidence of bias and variation in diagnostic accuracy studies.

February 14, 2006

Emotional influences in patient safety.

October 20, 2010

Time for transparent standards in quality reporting by health care organizations.

August 16, 2017

COVID-19: peer support and crisis communication strategies to promote institutional resilience.

April 22, 2020

Maternal mortality: near-miss events in middle-income countries, a systematic review.

November 24, 2021

The role of the anesthesiologist in perioperative patient safety.

October 8, 2014

The $17.1 billion problem: the annual cost of measurable medical errors.

April 20, 2011

2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: built environment considerations to reduce transmission.

May 6, 2020

Information technology cannot guarantee patient safety.

May 2, 2007

Resident supervision and patient safety: do different levels of resident supervision affect the rate of morbidity and mortality cases?

August 26, 2015

Conflict of interest, Dr Charles Denham and the Journal of Patient Safety.

December 3, 2014

Potentially inappropriate medications and their effect on falls during hospital admission.

March 23, 2022

How to discuss errors and adverse events with cancer patients.

June 16, 2010

On higher ground: ethical reasoning and its relationship with error disclosure.

April 24, 2013

A framework for encouraging patient engagement in medical decision making.

August 29, 2012

Do hospitals support second victims? Collective insights from patient safety leaders in Maryland.

July 19, 2017

Putting the patient in patient safety investigations: barriers and strategies for involvement.

June 3, 2020

Ethical and practical aspects of disclosing adverse events in the emergency department.

October 4, 2006

Cost–benefit analysis of a support program for nursing staff.

May 24, 2017

Where are my instruments? Hazards in delivery of surgical instruments.

August 10, 2016

Integration of prospective and retrospective methods for risk analysis in hospitals.

November 11, 2009

The experiences of risk managers in providing emotional support for health care workers after adverse events.

May 11, 2016

Risk managers' descriptions of programs to support second victims after adverse events.

May 13, 2015

RISE: exploring volunteer retention and sustainability of a second victim support program.

February 3, 2021

Validation of hospital administrative dataset for adverse event screening.

June 30, 2010

Safety of telephone triage in general practitioner cooperatives: do triage nurses correctly estimate urgency?

June 27, 2007

Learning from complaints in healthcare: a realist review of academic literature, policy evidence and front-line insights.

February 26, 2020

Health care professionals as second victims after adverse events: a systematic review.

October 24, 2012

Supporting involved health care professionals (second victims) following an adverse health event: a literature review.

August 15, 2012

Two sides of the safety coin?: how patient engagement and safety climate jointly affect error occurrence in hospital units.

November 4, 2015

The relationship between inpatient cardiac surgery mortality and nurse numbers and educational level: analysis of administrative data.

April 8, 2009

Sleep and errors in a group of Australian hospital nurses at work and during the commute.

November 19, 2008

Patient-assisted incident reporting: including the patient in patient safety.

June 1, 2011

Disclosing medical errors to patients: it's not what you say, it's what they hear.

July 22, 2009

Review of alternatives to root cause analysis: developing a robust system for incident report analysis.

September 18, 2019

Unplanned transfers to a medical intensive care unit: causes and relationship to preventable errors in care.

January 12, 2011

Resilience from a stakeholder perspective: the role of next of kin in cancer care.

September 23, 2020

SBAR improves nurse–physician communication and reduces unexpected death: a pre and post intervention study.

October 23, 2013

Disclosure of patient safety incidents: a comprehensive review.

September 1, 2010

Health care workers as second victims of medical errors.

May 11, 2011

Related Resources

Journal Article

Study

Implementation of a medication reconciliation risk stratification tool integrated within an electronic health record: a case series of three academic medical centers.

March 29, 2023

Use of complete medication history to identify and correct transitions-of-care medication errors at psychiatric hospital admission.

February 15, 2023

Interdisciplinary collaboration across secondary and primary care to improve medication safety in the elderly (The IMMENSE study) - a randomized controlled trial.

November 30, 2022

Differences in medication reconciliation interventions between six hospitals: a mixed method study.

June 29, 2022

The effect of a transitional pharmaceutical care program on the occurrence of ADEs after discharge from hospital in patients with polypharmacy.

April 27, 2022

Sources of medication omissions among hospitalized older adults with polypharmacy.

March 9, 2022

Assessing the impact of virtual medication history technicians on medication reconciliation discrepancies.

December 1, 2021

Therapeutic duplication on the general surgical wards.

October 13, 2021

Effect of medication reconciliation at hospital admission on 30-day returns to hospital: a randomized clinical trial.

October 6, 2021

Medication reconciliation during hospitalization and in hospital-home interface: an observational retrospective study.

April 7, 2021

Patient harm resulting from medication reconciliation process failures: a study of serious events reported by Pennsylvania hospitals.

March 24, 2021

Wrong drug and wrong dose dispensing errors identified in pharmacist professional liability claims.

November 4, 2020

Longitudinal medication reconciliation at hospital admission, discharge and post-discharge.

August 26, 2020

Improved medication management with introduction of a perioperative and prescribing pharmacist service.

August 12, 2020

WebM&M Cases

Cardiac Arrest in a Woman with UTI: A Case of QT Prolongation

November 27, 2019

Pharmacist linkage in care transitions: from academic medical center to community.

October 30, 2019

Review of medication errors that are new or likely to occur more frequently with electronic medication management systems.

July 17, 2019

Prospective daily review of discharge medications by pharmacists: effects on measures of safety and efficiency.

January 16, 2019

How to prevent the top 4 medication errors.

October 17, 2018

Improving admission medication reconciliation with pharmacists or pharmacy technicians in the emergency department: a randomised controlled trial.

November 8, 2017

An insurer's care transition program emphasizes medication reconciliation, reduces readmissions and costs.

July 27, 2016

Reducing readmission at an academic medical center: results of a pharmacy-facilitated discharge counseling and medication reconciliation program.

July 20, 2016

Reducing errors through discharge medication reconciliation by pharmacy services.

August 26, 2015

Effect of a ward-based pharmacy team on preventable adverse drug events in surgical patients (SUREPILL study).

August 19, 2015

Preventing medication errors in transitions of care: a patient case approach.

March 25, 2015

A prospective cohort study of medication reconciliation using pharmacy technicians in the emergency department to reduce medication errors among admitted patients.

January 21, 2015

Prospective risk analysis and incident reporting for better pharmaceutical care at paediatric hospital discharge.

December 17, 2014

Medication reconciliation: getting started with IT.

March 5, 2014

An evaluation of a collaborative, safety focused, nurse–pharmacist intervention for improving the accuracy of the medication history.

November 20, 2013

Prescribing errors on admission to hospital and their potential impact: a mixed-methods study.

October 16, 2013

See More About The Topic

General Hospitals

Pharmacists

Quality and Safety Professionals

Surgery

Hospital Pharmacy

Medication reconciliation performed by pharmacy technicians at the time of preoperative screening.

Implementation of a medication reconciliation risk stratification tool integrated within an electronic health record: a case series of three academic medical centers.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Medication reconciliation performed by pharmacy technicians at the time of preoperative screening.

Implementation of a medication reconciliation risk stratification tool integrated within an electronic health record: a case series of three academic medical centers.

Connect With Us

Sign up for Email Updates

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue Logged In

Submit Your Innovations

Continue as a Guest

Continue logged in

New Users to the PSNet site