THE impact of medication reconciliation interventions, in particular pharmacistmediated interventions on medication discrepancies, is uncertain due to very low statistical certainty of the evidence, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review.
Despite reconciliation being recognised as a key aspect of patient safety, authors concluded that there was "also no certainty of the effect of the interventions on the secondary clinical outcomes of ADEs, PADEs and healthcare utilisation" - cochranelibrary.com.
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