Multi-Center Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study

Summary

Patients often have problems after they leave the hospital, in part because errors are made in the medications they are prescribed. The goal of this project is to develop a more accurate and safe medication prescription process when patients enter and leave the hospital and implement this process at six U.S. hospitals. The investigators will measure the success of the project and develop lessons learned so this process can be applied to other hospitals.

Conditions

• Adverse Drug Events
• Medication Administered in Error

Interventions

OTHER

Mentored medication reconciliation quality improvement

Based on expert recommendations from a recent conference on medication reconciliation sponsored by the Society of Hospital Medicine and funded by AHRQ, investigators will engage a steering committee and conduct a second conference to operationalize these recommendations into a set of "best practice" guidelines, standards, and tools to be adapted by each of 6 participating sites. After training mentors and developing data collection tools, a mentored quality improvement project will be conducted for 21 months, in which each site works to improve medication reconciliation using the toolkit and with mentorship in the form of two site visits and monthly phone calls.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Society of Hospital Medicine

  collaborator OTHER

• Vanderbilt University

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Wisconsin, Madison

  collaborator OTHER

• University of California, San Francisco

  collaborator OTHER

• Baystate Health

  collaborator OTHER

• University of Chicago

  collaborator OTHER

• Presbyterian Hospital, Charlotte

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Sioux Falls VA Health Care System

  collaborator FED

• Emory Johns Creek Hospital

  collaborator UNKNOWN

• Brigham and Women's Hospital

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• Jeffrey L Schnipper, MD, MPH · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Masking

NONE

Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2011-03-31

Primary Completion

2014-09-30

Completion

2014-09-30

Countries

• United States

Study Locations