Medications a patient is actively taking daily, reflects consecutively among health care fundamentally, known as the “active medication list”. Medication reconciliation is operationalized popularly throughout healthcare systems implemented structurally by policies and procedures, developed from evidence based practice. Keogh et al. defined medication reconciliation as an standardized method in reviewing a patient’s prescribed medication list and comparing medications the patient reports he or she is taking each day (2016). Healthcare professionals utilizing medication reconciling, encompasses: medical assistants, licensed practical nurses, registered nurses, advanced nurse practitioners, physician assistants, physicians, or pharmacists. Reviewing
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Medication reconciliation should ideally begin within ambulatory care-long before a hospital admission. As health care cost continue to increase Vogenberg and DiLascia draws numbers into perspectives, “according to the Healthcare Research and Quality, approximately 838,000 emergency department visits and 1.8 million hospitalizations annually are due to ADEs, with an estimated $2.6 billion in total hospital costs” (2013, p.1). Cost concerns continue as Car et al. argues, the United States of American financial costs estimated related to medication errors caused from preventable adverse drug reactions yearly to be $17 billion (2016). Expenses no matter dollar value, from transitions among hospitals or ambulatory primary care visits are directly linked to the frequency and accuracy of patient medication lists reviewed. Ironically, hospital financial incentive program began in 2016 validating the standardization needed to achieve medication reconciliation (Keogh et al., 2016). If compensation wasn't enough of a motivator for accurate medication reconciliation; responsibility with an intention to protect patients, (McCarthy et al., 2016) from medication error events including discrepancy consequences should
Medication reconciliation should ideally begin within ambulatory care-long before a hospital admission. As health care cost continue to increase Vogenberg and DiLascia draws numbers into perspectives, “according to the Healthcare Research and Quality, approximately 838,000 emergency department visits and 1.8 million hospitalizations annually are due to ADEs, with an estimated $2.6 billion in total hospital costs” (2013, p.1). Cost concerns continue as Car et al. argues, the United States of American financial costs estimated related to medication errors caused from preventable adverse drug reactions yearly to be $17 billion (2016). Expenses no matter dollar value, from transitions among hospitals or ambulatory primary care visits are directly linked to the frequency and accuracy of patient medication lists reviewed. Ironically, hospital financial incentive program began in 2016 validating the standardization needed to achieve medication reconciliation (Keogh et al., 2016). If compensation wasn't enough of a motivator for accurate medication reconciliation; responsibility with an intention to protect patients, (McCarthy et al., 2016) from medication error events including discrepancy consequences should