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Patient Safety Through Medication Reconciliation
The adoption of the Affordable Healthcare Act has assisted an increasing number of Americans to have access to health insurance. Despite the benefits associated with the new law, the quality of health delivery is still low because of the issue such as medication errors. The poster recommends an implementation of medical reconciliation to improve the quality of healthcare delivery in the United States. The method of achieving the medical reconciliation is to use the tools such as OASIS, HHCAHPS, Quarterly Reports, Supervisory Visits, and Organizational Performance Improvement. Application of these tools will assist in enhancing a quality of healthcare delivery.
Introduction
In the contemporary health environment, the U.S. is undergoing some fundamental changes because of an adoption of ACA (Affordable Healthcare Act) generally known as Obama Care. The new law is rapidly increasing the number American residents having a health insurance and raising the number of insured diverse population. Despite the benefits associated with the Obama Care, the quality of healthcare delivery is still limited in the United States because of the issues such as the medication errors. Typically, the medication error is one of the top causes of mortality and morbidity accounting for one out of 845 inpatient deaths and one out 130 outpatient death. "Any time that information about a patient's medication is communicated, there is a potential for error.." (Beatrice, 2014 p 153).
The associated problems...
Patients are also demanding for an increased variety of treatment options, thus, it is critical for Home Care Agency to implement changes using Medical Reconciliation to eliminate or reducing medication errors within the healthcare environment. (Musgrave, 2013). Moreover, the Home Health Agency is required to implement a policy to build a positive reputation, and reduce providers' mistake to boost their revenue. Thus, an implementation of medical reconciliation will allow the healthcare organization to provide the accurate patients' treatments. (Greenwald, Halasyamani, & Greene, et al. 2010).
Aim
The objective of this poster presentation is to improve patients' safety through medical reconciliation.
Materials and Method
The medication reconciliation process consists of the medication name, frequency and dose, which are cross-checked with physician or doctor's notes to ascertain its accuracy. The data collection tools consist of:
OASIS
HHCAHPS
Organizational Performance Improvement
Quarterly Reports, and Supervisory Visits.
These tools assist in preventing the medication errors. The tools have distinct strengths. First, OASIS serves as a data collection tool focusing on the patient outcome. OASIS…
Reference
Beatrice, T. (2014). Improving Patient Safety by Improving Medication Communication. Orthopaedic Nursing. 28 (3): 153-154.
Cornu P, Steurbaut S, Leysen T, et al. (2012). Effect of medication reconciliation at hospital admission on medication discrepancies during hospitalization and at discharge for geriatric patients. Ann Pharmacother. 46: 484-494.
Greenwald, J.L., Halasyamani, L., & Greene, J., et al. (2010). Making inpatient medication reconciliation patient centered, clinically relevant and implementable: a consensus statement on key principles and necessary first steps. J Hosp Med. 5:477
Musgrave, C.R. Pilcha, N.A. Taberb, D. J. (2013). Improving transplant patient safety through pharmacist discharge medication reconciliation. American journal of transplantation. 13(3): 796-801.
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