Abstract
Abstract
Background: - Medication errors are common to occur most frequently during the prescribing and administering transition of care, contribute to adverse drug events in part through medication discrepancies, and this is due to the absence or under-implementation of medication reconciliation, furthermore, Current evidence conducted across the world is limited only to evaluate medication reconciliation and to classify medication discrepancies at admission, discharge and home medication, missing discrepancies during admission to different ward of the hospital
Objective: This study aimed to evaluate of medication reconciliation process among home medication, hospital admission, transition across different wards, and discharge in Mizan Tepi university teaching hospital South West Ethiopia from July 03 to September 02, 2022.
Methods and Materials: - A prospective cross-sectional study was conducted at the medical ward of Mizan Tepi university teaching hospital. from July 03 to September 02, 2022. A total of 59 patients and medical records were included in the study. The data were collected using structured data collection tools developed from different literature and guidelines. The collected data were coded, entered, and analyzed using a Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS, version 23).
Result:Out of 59 study participants, medication discrepancies were detected in 56 of the study group, and from 893 medication patients taking 518 medication discrepancies were identified and 96,149 and 1 unintentional medication discrepancies were identified at transition A, B, and C respectively.
Conclusion; The medication reconciliation process should be implemented in terms of a multidisciplinary approach and also MR process should be incorporated in the hospital as one part of the standard treatment guideline in order to overcome good patient recovery outcomes, and patients should be aware of some home PO medication that should they continue while they are admitted.
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