ECRI: How to improve medication history and reconciliation processes in ambulatory care (13 June 2023)

Summary

Patients often have multiple providers involved in their care. On the one hand, patients are able to receive specialty care to help manage multiple, complex medical conditions. On the other hand, such fragmentation in care may lead to medication errors from inaccurate or incomplete patient medication lists.

As stewards of their patients' care, it is essential that primary care providers take steps to review and reconcile each patient's medication list to avoid errors or adverse drug events, and organisational leaders must ensure that systems are in place to support these efforts.