The Impact Of Clinical Pharmacists Medication Reconciliation Upon Patients Admission To Reduce Medication Discrepancies.

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

161 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2020-09-25

Study Completion Date

2020-11-30

Brief Summary

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It is a quazai one arm study shows the impact of the role of the clinical pharmacists through medication reconciliation to patients admitted to the emergency department .The main aim is to show if the pharmacists intervention is associated with establishing a complete drug history list than the list already presented in the patient file and taken by the physician .Then a description of the medication errors detected will be done .

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Detailed Description

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It is a quazai one arm study in which the pre phase is the detection of the complete and accurate drug history list already presented in the patient file and taken by the physician and the post phase is the detection of the complete and accurate drug history list taken by the clinical pharmacists after medication reconciliation for the same patients.

medication reconciliation will be done as a full diseases and preadmission medications history will be taken from the patients or the family through interviews, revising previous prescriptions and hospital records.

* Preadmission medication history will include medications trade names, doses, frequency and route of administration and treatment duration and also will include the consumption of vitamins or herbs.
* The medication errors will be detected ,calculated and classified according to medication at transitions and clinical handoffs (MATCH) toolkit for medication reconciliation and NCC MERP index.

Conditions

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Medication Reconcilitation Upon Hospital Admission

Study Design

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Allocation Method

NA

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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patients admitted to emergency department

the intervention is the medication reconciliation

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

medication reconciliation

Intervention Type OTHER

the emergency clinical pharmacists will start medication reconciliation with the admitted patients and a full diseases and preadmission medications history will be taken.A comparison between the accuracy and completeness of drug history lists already presented in the profile and drug history taken by the clinical pharmacists to detect the medication discrepancies

Interventions

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medication reconciliation

the emergency clinical pharmacists will start medication reconciliation with the admitted patients and a full diseases and preadmission medications history will be taken.A comparison between the accuracy and completeness of drug history lists already presented in the profile and drug history taken by the clinical pharmacists to detect the medication discrepancies

Intervention Type OTHER