Session Information
2008 Midyear Clinical Meeting
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Medication Reconciliation: What Have We Learned?
Track:
Educational Sessions
Program Code: 220-L03
Date: Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Time: 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM EST
Location:
S230B
MEETING PLANNING ASSOCIATE:
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Daniel Cobaugh, PharmD, FAACT, Director of Research and Program Development, ASHP Research and Education Foundation
PRESENTER(S):
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Trinh Le, Director of Pharmacy, Sibley Memorial Hospital
LEARNER OUTCOMES:
- Describe a pharmacist program to enhance the collection of accurate information about home medication use in admitted patients.
- Describe the effectiveness of a medication discrepancy resolution intervention in older home care patients recently transitioned from the hospital.
- Discuss the effect of a novel collaborative nurse-pharmacist intervention on obtaining accurate medication and allergy histories.
- Discuss the impact of a collaborative, technology-supported process for medication reconciliation, across the health care continuum, on medication prescribing errors in a community health care system.
- Discuss the prevalence and contributing factors associated with discrepancies between patients' pre-hospital medications, post hospital medications, and medications actually taken after discharge.