Exploring the association of the discharge medicines review with patient hospital readmissions through national routine data linkage in Wales: a retrospective cohort study (February 2020)

Summary

Interventions information related to the patient’s medication and hospital stay is provided to the community pharmacists on discharge from hospital, who undertake a two-part service involving medicines reconciliation and a medicine use review. To investigate the association of this discharge medicines review (DMR) service with hospital readmission, a data linking process was undertaken across six national databases.

The objective of this research, published by BMJ Open, was to evaluate the association of the DMR community pharmacy service with hospital readmissions through linking National Health Service data sets.