Medication Reconciliation - A Much Needed in the Each Hospital
Ashika KV1 and Ravinandan AP2*
1Department of Pharmacy Practice, Sree Siddaganga College of Pharmacy, Tumkur, Karnataka, India
2Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Sree Siddaganga College of Pharmacy, Tumkur, Karnataka, India
*Corresponding Author: Ravinandan AP, Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacy Practice, Sree Siddaganga College of Pharmacy, Tumkur, Karnataka, India.
Published: December 26, 2023
DOI: 10.55162/MCMS.06.181
Abstract
Medication reconciliation is a process of screening of patient prescription, obtaining accurate list of previous medication and comparing it with prescription after transition of care (on admission, after transfer to another clinical unit, and at discharge) [1]. Medication reconciliation is a safety strategy used to prevent the discrepancies, has been adopted by many healthcare organizations. It was first implemented in 2005 as a National Patient Safety Goal (NPSG) by the Joint Commission and later the WHO collaborators involved themselves in endorsing this strategy across many countries [2]. The accurate medication history was one of the patient safety solutions disseminated in 2007 by the WHO [3].
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