What do systematic reviews say?

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: multimodal intervention vs usual care

It is very uncertain whether medication reconciliation: multimodal intervention changes potential ADEs ( compared with usual care (very low certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 0.97 [0.86, 1.09]
  1648 participants
  Very low

Medication reconciliation: multimodal intervention vs usual care

Medication reconciliation: multimodal intervention probably leads to higher discrepancy resolution ( compared with usual care (moderate certainty).

• Reducing medication errors for adults in hospital settings 2021 · Cochrane Headline outcomes only
  RR 2.14 [1.81, 2.53]
  1 study · 487 participants
  Moderate

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