MEDICATION RECONCILIATION AND INPATIENT FALL- IDENTIFYING WAYS TO IMPROVE PATIENT SAFETY

Author(s)

Agbor Bawa W1, Rianon N2, Melton B3, Chen J4, Rasu R3
1University of Kansas, Kansas City, KS, USA, 2University of Texas, Houston, TX, USA, 3University of Kansas School of Pharmacy, Lawrence, KS, USA, 4University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS, USA

OBJECTIVES: Fall during hospitalization, an important measure of quality and patient safety, continues to be a challenge for both the medical and administrative services. Medication-reconciliation play a crucial role in reducing medication-related falls during the hospital stay.  We characterized patients who had a fall during inpatient visits between 2007-2014 and assessed medication-related risk of fall. METHODS: We collected data of patients who had a fall during inpatient stays between 2007-2014 from the Healthcare Enterprise Repository for Ontological Narration(HERON) database of an academic medical center.  HERON is a database that integrates clinical and biomedical data for translational research at University of Kansas Medical Center(KUMC). We identified a cohort of patients who were classified as “High Risk of Fall” during their inpatient stay and had experienced a ‘Fall’ from inpatient flowchart and nurse assessment indicators.  The AHRQ provided medication-related fall risk tool was incorporated to assess medication-related risk of fall(high risk=score>6) RESULTS: A total 411,360 patients had an inpatient visits. About 8.9%(36,578) of these visits included patients at “High Risk of Fall”. 5,484 patients experienced a fall during this period. Among these patients with fall, 36% were aged 50-65, 50% were female, and 75% were white. Medication-reconciliation was done for 67% of these patients who brought at least one mediation from home. Discharge medication-reconciliation was done for 30% of these patients. 68% of them were on opioids, 62% on diuretics, 46% on antidepressants, and 34% on antihypertensive medications. Most(83%) of these patients with fall belonged to high risk of medication-related fall category(score >=6). CONCLUSIONS: From 2007-2014, 5,484(1.3%) patients experienced a fall during their hospitalization. Admission medication-reconciliation was done on more than half of the patients(67%) but there is a large gap in discharge medication-reconciliation (only30%). Further research is warranted to determine if interventions with vigorous medication-reconciliation could be implemented to prevent medication-related inpatient falls.

Conference/Value in Health Info

2016-05, ISPOR 2016, Washington DC, USA

Value in Health, Vol. 19, No. 3 (May 2016)

Code

PHP184

Topic

Health Service Delivery & Process of Care

Topic Subcategory

Quality of Care Measurement

Disease

Multiple Diseases

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