What do systematic reviews say?

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist may leads to lower medication errors ( compared with other professionals (low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  OR 0.21 [0.09, 0.48]
  8 studies · 2648 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist showed no clear difference in readmission at 1 month ( compared with other professionals (moderate certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 0.93 [0.76, 1.14]
  2 studies · 997 participants
  Moderate

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  6 studies · 3983 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 724 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist may leads to higher discrepancy resolution ( compared with other professionals (low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  OR 4.8 [1.81, 12.76]
  3 studies · 1449 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist showed no clear difference in ADEs ( compared with other professionals (low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  OR 1.34 [0.73, 2.44]
  3 studies · 2873 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist vs other professionals

Medication reconciliation: pharmacist showed no clear difference in mortality during hospitalisation ( compared with other professionals (moderate certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 0.99 [0.57, 1.73]
  2 studies · 1000 participants
  Moderate

Medication reconciliation by trained pharmacist technician vs pharmacist

It is very uncertain whether medication reconciliation by trained pharmacist technician changes medication errors ( compared with pharmacist (very low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  OR 0.65 [0.25, 1.7]
  2 studies · 306 participants
  Very low

Medication reconciliation by trained pharmacist technician vs pharmacist

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 183 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation by pharmacist: database‐assisted MR vs unassisted MR

Medication reconciliation by pharmacist: database‐assisted MR may leads to lower potential ADEs ( ≥ 1 per patient) ( compared with unassisted MR (low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  OR 0.26 [0.1, 0.64]
  2 studies · 3326 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation by pharmacist: database‐assisted MR vs unassisted MR

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  no estimate extracted
  1 study · 311 participants
  Low

Medication reconciliation by pharmacist: database‐assisted MR vs unassisted MR

Medication reconciliation by pharmacist: database‐assisted MR showed no clear difference in discrepancy resolution ( compared with unassisted MR (low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  OR 1.37 [0.97, 1.93]
  2 studies · 791 participants
  Low