Hospital Discharge Research Paper

Medication discrepancies at the point of hospital discharge are a common occurrence [1-3]. A recent study reported that 41.3 % of patients had at least one unintentional medication discrepancy at hospital discharge, and 55.3 % were at risk for potential unintentional discrepancies involving incomplete or omitted prescription drug records [3]. In addition, a randomized controlled trial among 851 discharged cardiac patients concluded that about half of the patients (50.8 %) experienced clinically important medication errors after hospital discharge and 22.9 % of such errors classified to be serious [4]. Also, a Canadian study reported that nearly 23 % of patients experienced at least one adverse event after hospital discharge and 72 % of which