| Study type/ Setting | Methods | Outcomes | Recommendations | Source |
| Cluster randomized
controlled trial
Setting: Inpatient
|
- To determine the effect of health information exchange (HIE) on medication prescribing for hospital inpatients
- Patients admitted to an urban hospital received structured medication reconciliation by an intervention pharmacist with access to a regional HIE vs no access to the HIE - The HIE contained prescribing info from the largest hospitals and pharmacy insurance plan in the region - Primary endpoint was discrepancies between pre-admission and inpatient medication regimens |
- 186 pts (intervention) vs 195 (control)
- There was no difference between intervention and control in number of discrepancies, discrepancies associated ADEs. |
- HIE may improve outcomes of medication reconciliation, however more efforts are needed to understand and increase prescriber’s rectification of medication discrepancies | Boockvar KS et al. |
| Boockvar KS, Ho W, Pruskowski J, et al. Effect of health information exchange on recognition of medication discrepancies is interrupted when data charges are introduced: results of a cluster-randomized controlled trial. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association. 2017;24(6):1095-1101. doi:10.1093/jamia/ocx044 |
||||