TY  - JOUR 
AU  - Becerra-Camargo, Jesús
AU  - García-Jiménez, Emilio
AU  - Martínez Martínez, Fernando
PY  - 2015
SN  - 1472-6963
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10481/37310
AB  - Background:

Potential adverse drug events (PADEs) are defined as being potentially harmful unintentional medication discrepancies. Discrepancies regarding medication history (MH) often occur when a patient is being admitted to a hospital’s...
AB  - Method:

A multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled parallel-group study was carried out at 3 large teaching hospitals in Bogota, Colombia. Two hundred and seventy patients who had been admitted to an ED were enrolled; each had a...
AB  - Results:

There were 811 PADE (3.35 per patient), 528 (65 %) on the standard care arm and 283 (35 %) on an intervention arm. Most PADEs were judged to have had the potential to cause moderate discomfort (42.6 %), 33.4 % were deemed unlikely to have...
AB  - Conclusion:

Many patients suffer potentially adverse drugs events during the transition of care from home to a hospital. Patient safety-focused medication reconciliation during admission to an ED involving a pharmacist and drawing up a history of...
LA  - eng
PB  - Biomed Central
KW  - Drug events
KW  - Hospital's emergency
KW  - Emergency
KW  - Medication
TI  - The effect on potential adverse drug events of a pharmacist-acquired medication history in an emergency department: a multicentre, double-blind, randomised, controlled, parallel-group study
DO  - 10.1186/s12913-015-0990-1
ER  -