Interventions to Improve Medication Reconciliation in Primary Care

Objective:To systematically reviewall primary care intervention studies designed to implement medicationreconciliation for effects on medicationdiscrepancies, clinical outcomes, and patient knowledge of their medications.Data Sources:We searched MEDLINE (1988–March 2008); Healthstar (1966–March 2008): CINAHL(1982–March 2008); EMBASE (1980–March 2008); Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, Cochrane Methodology Register, and Health Technology Assessments; and unpublished material. No language restrictions were applied. Search terms included medicationreconciliation, medicationerrors, prescribing error, medicationsystems, adverse drug events, drug utilization review, medicationlist, medicationrecord, and medicationsmanagement.Study Selection And Data Abstraction:Randomized controlled trials or before-and-after studies that examined the effect of various interventions on medicationdiscrepancies either in...