a time and motion study Ari N Meguerditchian1,2,3*, Stanimira Krotneva1, Kristen Reidel1, Allen Huang4 and Robyn Tamblyn1,5,6 Abstract Background: Medication reconciliation at admission, transfer and discharge has been designated as a required hospital practice to reduce adverse drug events...
It can be challenging for healthcare professionals to readily identify patients who present with this difficulty within the hospital setting.To apply the "Swallowing Difficulties with Medication Intake and Coping Strategies" (SWAMECO) questionnaire at admission to hospital to elucidate the medication ...
Within 3 business days of hospital discharge, all patients enrolled in the intervention arm of the trial were sent a SMMRT form to review. Prior to hospital discharge, research assistants (RAs) trained patients on how to use the patient portal and SMMRT by helping the participants log into ...
intake appointment, and only 19% entered treatment. Acadia formed a walk through team and recorded experiences, timelines, and questions encountered from a client perspective. The walk through identified barriers to admission in Acadia’s intake procedures; clients were required to place daily calls ...
Results of the Medications At Transitions and Clinical Handoffs (MATCH) study: an analysis of medication reconciliation errors and risk factors at hospital admission. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25(5):441-447. doi: 10.1007/s11606-010-1256-6 4. Ketchum K, Grass CA, Padwojski A...
Studies show that interventions with a collaborative approach [143, 155] and covering the entire care transition process from admission to discharge and post-discharge [146, 156] seem to be better at reducing the overall use of healthcare services. Based on current knowledge it is suggested that...
Full size table Secondary objectives are to evaluate the effectiveness of the decision support tool regarding all-cause mortality and non-elective hospital admission as single endpoints as well as a number of secondary outcomes (see Methods section). ...
such as the patient's location in the hospital, whether the patient has any allergies to medication, the diagnosis, if any, for the patient, the patient's primary physician, the patient's personal data (height, weight, age, blood type), the date of admission, and so on. Further, the ...
Inappropriate medication and polypharmacy increase morbidity, hospitalisation rate, costs and mortality in multimorbid patients. At hospital discharge of elderly patients, polypharmacy is often even more pronounced than at admission. However, the optimal
Patients’ good experience from previous positive effects of medication intake, which manifested in enhancement of quality of life and health status could encourage patients to continue medication consumption. Apart from the effective variables on adherence, in order to increase medication adherence while ...