Medication Reconciliation Form

​Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee, USA

An unreconciled medication is one that has been omitted in the orders without explanation. This includes medications listed as previously taken on a home medication list for admissions or listed on the MAR for transfers and discharges. This tool may be used to track a patient’s medications upon admission, transfer, and discharge.

Background
As a participant in the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s Reducing High Hazard Adverse Drug Events Breakthrough Series Collaborative, the Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis campus has tested this tool on a pilot population to decrease their rate of unreconciled medications in order to improve patient safety.

 Documents

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  • How-to Guide: Prevent Adverse Drug Events (Medication Reconciliation)
    This How-to Guide describes key evidence-based care components to prevent ADEs by implementing medication reconciliation at all transitions in care.
  • Medication Reconciliation Review
    Step-by-step instructions for reviewing closed patient records to identify errors related to unreconciled medications.
  • Percent of Unreconciled Medications
    Measure unreconciled medications to decrease potential medication errors that may lead to adverse events and patient harm.
  • Reconcile Medications at All Transition Points
    Medication reconciliation is the process of creating the most accurate list possible of all medications a patient is taking including drug name, dosage, frequency, and route, and comparing that list against the admission, transfer, and/or discharge orders, with the goal of preventing unintended chnages or omissions during transition points.
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