A medication reconciliation program may help reduce hospital emergency room readmissions by as much as 6%, a recent study shows.
A British research team compared outcome measures between two groups of hospital patients: one that received medication reconciliation upon admission and discharge, and one group that received “usual care.”
The reconciliation group had a readmission rate of 17.9%, compared to 26.7% in the control group. That translates into a 6% reduction in three-month readmission rates, researchers said.
Results were published in March in the journal Health Services Research.
From the April 01, 2017 Issue of McKnight's Long-Term Care News
