Medication Reconciliation Case Study

A. Describe the complete process of medication reconciliation at your practice site including who is involved, what patient data is collected, how the data is collected and documented, and any other key steps in the process.
Upon admission, a medication history is obtained by an RN. If the patient is unable to provide the history at that time it can be done a number of ways: family interview, written patient med list, rx vials, recent H&P, transfer records, recent discharge med list, and/or retail pharmacy list. The pharmacist uses a program on the computer to pull up this gathered information to evaluate it for completeness and may interview the patient themselves. There is only one pharmacist responsible for med-rec therefore many patient