Bazon, Jenna
(2024)
Promoting Medication Safety Through Pharmacy-Led Medication Reconciliation.
Master Essay, University of Pittsburgh.
Abstract
This essay presents a literature and health policy review focusing on promoting medication safety through pharmacy-led medication reconciliation. Medication reconciliation plays a pivotal role in promoting medication safety through mitigating medication errors, discrepancies, and adverse drug events, which has been a great public health prevalence. Although there is promising evidence that pharmacy-led medication reconciliation may improve accuracy and enhance best practices due to pharmacists’ expertise in medication management, pharmacists are not as integrated in medication reconciliation practices as they should be. This paper will highlight the
need for systemic change in further integrating pharmacy-led medication reconciliation practices to enhance medication safety. Structured into three main sections: reviewing the evidence on the effectiveness of pharmacy-led medication reconciliation, describing the current health policy landscape, which outlines the policy levers that may be used to expand the use of pharmacy-led practices, and a discussion of health system implementation that may constrain the uptake of pharmacy-led medication reconciliation.
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| Item Type: |
Other Thesis, Dissertation, or Long Paper
(Master Essay)
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| Status: |
Unpublished |
| Creators/Authors: |
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| Contributors: |
| Contribution | Contributors Name | Email | Pitt Username | ORCID  |
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| Committee Chair | Donohue, Julie | jdonohue@pitt.edu | jdonohue | UNSPECIFIED | | Committee Member | Abel, Taylor | abelt@pitt.edu | abelt | UNSPECIFIED |
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| Date: |
14 May 2024 |
| Date Type: |
Completion |
| Number of Pages: |
30 |
| Institution: |
University of Pittsburgh |
| Schools and Programs: |
School of Public Health > Health Policy & Management |
| Degree: |
MHA - Master of Health Administration |
| Thesis Type: |
Master Essay |
| Refereed: |
Yes |
| Date Deposited: |
14 May 2024 19:30 |
| Last Modified: |
14 May 2024 19:30 |
| URI: |
http://d-scholarship.pitt.edu/id/eprint/46128 |
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