[Quality of home medication collection in the Emergency Department: reconciliation discrepancies]. / Calidad de la recogida de la medicación domiciliaria en urgencias: discrepancias en la conciliación.

INTRODUCTION: The objective of the study was to assess home medication data collected at the Emergency Department in a tertiary hospital. It also aimed to identify whether any possible deficiencies in this collection were translated as reconciliation errors on admission, to analyse and classify these data and identify the pharmacological groups involved. METHOD: A prospective observational study was carried out which analysed the pharmacotherapeutic data collected at the Emergency Department. Patients who were admitted to the Pneumology and Internal Medicine wards at the Miguel Servet University Hospital in Zaragoza were included. A list of the home drugs taken before the hospital stay was compiled, assessing whether the quality deficiencies in data collected in the emergency department translated as reconciliation errors at admission. Unjustified discrepancies were considered and classified in line with the criteria of the consensus document on terminology, classification and assessment of the drug reconciliation programmes for 2009. RESULTS: We included 136 patients, finding reconciliation errors in 86.8%. The total number of reconciliation errors found was 519. The most frequent types were: omitting a drug, missing dose information, missing administration frequency information. Almost 40% of the reconciliation errors found in the Internal Medicine ward were not resolved, which was double that of the Pneumology ward. Most discrepancies were found for the Digestive System and Metabolism group (24%). CONCLUSIONS: The percentage of patients that experienced reconciliation errors was high (86%), observing an important opportunity to improve at patient admission to the Emergency Department.

Calidad de la recogida de la medicación domiciliaria en urgencias: discrepancias en la conciliación / Quality of Home Medication Collection in the Emergency Department: Reconciliation Discrepancies

Introducción El objetivo del estudio fue valorar la calidad de la recogida de información de la medicación domiciliaria en el servicio de Urgencias de un hospital de tercer nivel, e identificar si las posibles deficiencias en esta recogida se tradujeron en errores de conciliación al ingreso, analizar estos y clasificarlos, así como identificar los grupos farmacológicos implicados. Métodos Se realizó un estudio observacional prospectivo en el que se analizó la información farmacoterapéutica recogida en el servicio de Urgencias. Se incluyeron los pacientes que ingresaron en la Unidad de Neumología y de Medicina Interna del Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet de Zaragoza. Se elaboró un listado con la medicación domiciliaria del paciente antes del ingreso, y se valoró si las deficiencias de calidad en la información recogida en urgencias se tradujeron en errores de conciliación al ingreso. Se tuvieron en cuenta las discrepancias no justificadas y se clasificaron siguiendo los criterios del Documento de consenso sobre terminología, clasificación y evaluación de los programas de Conciliación de la Medicación 2009.ResultadosSe incluyeron 136 pacientes, hallando errores de conciliación en el 86,8%. El número total de errores de conciliación encontrados fue 519. Siendo los subtipos más frecuentes: omisión de algún medicamento, falta de dosis y falta de frecuencia de administración. Cerca de un 40% de los errores de conciliación encontrados en el servicio de Medicina Interna no fueron resueltos, el doble de los encontrados en el servicio de Neumología. El grupo farmacológico en el que se encontraron más discrepancias fue el de aparato digestivo y metabolismo, con un 24%.ConclusionesEl porcentaje de pacientes con errores de conciliación es elevado (86%), observándose una importante oportunidad de mejora al ingreso de los pacientes en el servicio de Urgencias (AU)

Introduction The objective of the study was to assess home medication data collected at the emergency department in a tertiary hospital. It also aimed to identify whether any possible deficiencies in this collection were translated as reconciliation errors on admission, to analyse and classify these data and identify the pharmacological groups involved. Methods A prospective observational study was carried out which analysed the pharmacotherapeutic data collected at the emergency department. Patients who were admitted to the Pneumology and Internal Medicine wards at the Miguel Servet University Hospital in Zaragoza were included. A list of the home drugs taken before the hospital stay was compiled, assessing whether the quality deficiencies in data collected in the emergency department translated as reconciliation errors at admission. Unjustified discrepancies were considered and classified in line with the criteria of the consensus document on terminology, classification and assessment of the drug reconciliation programmes for 2009.ResultsWe included 136 patients, finding reconciliation errors in 86.8%. The total number of reconciliation errors found was 519. The most frequent types were: omitting a drug, missing dose information, missing administration frequency information. Almost 40% of the reconciliation errors found in the Internal Medicine ward were not resolved, which was double to that of the Pneumology ward. Most discrepancies were found for the Digestive System and Metabolism group (24%).Conclusions The percentage of patients that experienced reconciliation errors was high (86%), observing an important opportunity to improve at patient admission to the emergency department (AU)