Zeynep Parlak Özer, Ufuk Balaman
An Investigation into Student Dietitians' Professional Development through Video-Mediated Communication Training on Patient Counselling
Health communication
medication reconciliation medrec widely accepted tool identification resolution unintended medication discrepancies umd study aimed assessing magnitude associated factors umd identified medication reconciliation upon patient admission internal medicine wards prospective crosssectional study conducted internal medicine wards felege hiwot tibebe ghion comprehensive specialized hospitals bahir dar city northwest ethiopia may 01 july 30 2021 data collected using data abstraction format prepared based standard medrec tools previous studies medication discrepancy pharmacistsled medrec made following high5s retroactive medication reconciliation model spss ibm corporation version 250 used analyze data descriptive inferential statistics binary logistic regression analysis used identify factors associated umd statistical significance declared pvalue 005 among 635 adult patients 248 391 least one umd frequent types umds omission 4175 wrong dose 219 majority 753 pharmacists interventions accepted polypharmacy admission pvalue 0001 age 65 pvalue 0001 unit increase number comorbidities pvalue 0008 information sources used medrec pvalue 0001 medium pvalue 0019 low adherence pvalue 0001 significantly associated umd magnitude umd upon patient admission internal medicine wards considerably high omission wrong dose medication common older age polypharmacy low medium adherence increase number comorbidities information sources used medrec significantly associated umds pharmacists interventions mostly acceptable thus implementation pharmacistsled medrec two hospitals indispensable patient safety