Medication reconciliation interventions vs usual care: Discrepancies per participant medication
It is very uncertain whether medication reconciliation interventions changes discrepancies per participant medication compared with standard care (very low certainty).
What each review found
Include earlier review versions| Finding | Effect | Studies | GRADE certainty |
|---|---|---|---|
Medication reconciliation interventions vs standard care Number of medication discrepancies per participant (continuous) · all patients (aged > 18 years) at a transition of care Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | no estimate extracted | 4 studies · 1963 participants | Very low |
Medication reconciliation interventions vs standard care Discrepancies per participant medication · all patients (aged > 18 years) at a transition of care It is very uncertain whether medication reconciliation interventions changes discrepancies per participant medication compared with standard care (very low certainty). Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care (2018) · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | RR 0.13 [0.01, 1.29] | 2 studies · 3595 participants | Very low |
Findings are shown side by side, never pooled across reviews.
The reviews
| Review | Searched up to | Included studies | AMSTAR 2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact of medication reconciliation for improving transitions of care 2018 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only | Not reported | list not extracted yet | Not assessed |
Studies behind the findings
None of these reviews ties its included studies to this outcome in the data here. Cochrane reviews and reviews with headline outcomes only do not list their studies yet.
How reviews are matched to this question
Reviews word the same question differently. Four decision models (TypeSafe's Jev, Liquid AI's d1-ultra, SubQ Snap and Baseten's Elephant) judged each wording of the population, intervention, comparator and outcome against the others; two wordings count as the same when at least three of them agree and none clearly disagrees, and findings count as this question only when all four elements match. Timing, setting and subgroup never split a question: they are shown on each finding.