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Case Study:
Medication
Reconciliation During
Transitions Of Care:
How to Catch Errors,
Improve Patient
Safety and Reduce
Readmissions
CPS customizes and implements
hospital medication reconciliation
program to drive transitions of
care performance.
MEDICATION RECONCILIATION DURING
TRANSITIONS OF CARE: How to Catch Errors,
Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Readmissions
THE CHALLENGE:
Patients often receive new medications or have changes made to their existing
medications at times of transitions in care—upon hospital admission, transfer from
one unit to another during hospitalization, or discharge from hospital to home or
another facility. Caregivers at these transition points may inadvertently omit needed
medications, unnecessarily duplicate existing therapies, or contain incorrect dosages.
These discrepancies place patients at risk for adverse drug events, which have been
shown to be one of the most common types of adverse events after hospital discharge
and a key driver of hospital readmissions (see Diagram A).1
A leading 498-bed community
hospital (acute care and
rehabilitation) in Edison, New
Jersey, with more than 900
affiliated physicians providing
general and specialized
surgery, neurology, cardiac
care, maternity and pediatric
care, and emergency medicine.
About the JFK
Medical Center:
Medication reconciliation refers to the process of avoiding such inadvertent
inconsistencies across transitions of care by reviewing the patient’s complete medication
regimen at the time of admission, transfer, and discharge and comparing it with the
regimen being considered for the new setting of care.
Hospitals will lose a combined total of $420 million in reimbursements, penalized for failing
to meet readmissions targets set by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
(CMS). According to CMS, the average readmissions rate was 18.4 percent in 20122.
There’s a reason for the readmission problem. Studies show that patients are often
discharged from the hospital confused and don’t know how to take their prescriptions
properly3, and what’s worse, patients may duplicate, miss or take the wrong prescriptions
that are not in the care plan4.
With maximum CMS penalties set at 3%, the financial consequences of failing to
meet CMS targets for readmissions are very real. Statistics paint a bleak picture of the
challenges confronting hospitals as they work to stem the tide of preventable readmissions:
•
20% of Medicare patients will be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days of
discharge5
•
66% of emergency readmissions for patients over 65 years old are due to
adverse medication events6
•
19% of Medicare discharges are followed by an adverse medical event
within 30 days, and 2/3 of these are preventable7
•
20% of patients do not fill their prescriptions8
All of these dynamics led to the pilot program outlined in this case study, where the
leading community hospital sought to leverage pharmacy resources to build a medication
reconciliation program during transitions of care, from hospital admissions to post-
discharge to the patient’s home. The hospital wanted to manage the high risk and
complex medication regimens, patient specific risk factors, comorbidities and adverse
drug events associated with an increased rate of readmissions.
61%
No Harm
Potential
33%
Moderate
Harm
Potential
6%
Severe
Harm
Potential
Source: Cornish PL, Knowles SR, Marchesano R, et al.
Unintended medication discrepancies at the time of hospital
admission. Arch Intern Med. 2005;165:424-429.
DIAGRAM A
More than half of patients have
> 1 unintended medication
discrepancy at hospital admission
We help hospital pharmacy
leadership increase quality, reduce
readmissions and lower costs
across the continuum of care.
• Founded 45 years ago
and employing over 2,000
pharmacy professionals, CPS
is the nation’s oldest and
largest provider of pharmacy
support services to more than
600 hospitals and healthcare
facilities pharmacies.
• We offer industry leading
analytics and expertise that
help hospital pharmacists
tackle complex problems such
as medication reconciliation,
hyper-inflated drug costs,
standardization, centralized
distribution, retail pharmacies,
compliance, 340B programs,
and much more.
About Comprehensive
Pharmacy Services:
Comprehensive Pharmacy Services customizes and implements hospital medication
reconciliation program to drive transitions of care performance.
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Cantrell Drug
Company —
Pharmaceutical
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Specialists
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Innovative
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