{"id":587,"date":"2020-12-11T14:44:40","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T19:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/?p=587"},"modified":"2020-12-22T15:56:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T20:56:32","slug":"technician-medication-reconciliation-in-primary-care-is-an-overlooked-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/2020\/12\/11\/technician-medication-reconciliation-in-primary-care-is-an-overlooked-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Technician Medication Reconciliation in Primary Care Is An Overlooked Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pl-587\"  class=\"panel-layout\" ><div id=\"pg-587-0\"  class=\"panel-grid panel-no-style\" ><div id=\"pgc-587-0-0\"  class=\"panel-grid-cell\" ><div id=\"panel-587-0-0-0\" class=\"so-panel widget widget_black-studio-tinymce widget_black_studio_tinymce panel-first-child panel-last-child\" data-index=\"0\" ><div class=\"textwidget\"><table width=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"118\">A pilot program; retrospective chart review<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Setting: Primary care<\/td>\n<td width=\"190\">- Boise VA Medical Center - A program aimed to evaluate a pharmacy technician-directed medication reconciliation process in the primary care setting from Feb 2015 - April 2015<\/p>\n<p>- Following completion of the pharmacy techdirected MR pilot, a retrospective chart review was done to identify the number of resolved discrepancies<\/td>\n<td width=\"218\">- The pharmacy technician had identified 837 discrepancies, 712 of which were considered to be of minor clinical significance and unlikely to affect patient safety and 109<\/p>\n<p>of which were of moderate clinical significance<\/td>\n<td width=\"291\">- The pharmacy technician\u2013directed MR process helped avoid a number of errors, improved patient care, and ultimately decreased cost to the health care system.<\/p>\n<p>- These experiences highlight the opportunities available to technicians to improve the accuracy and completeness of MR in the primary care setting.<\/td>\n<td width=\"109\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pharmacytimes.com\/publications\/issue\/2019\/january2019\/technician-medication-reconciliation-in-primary-care-is-an-overlooked-opportunity\">Bolster and Koyle (2019)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td colspan=\"5\">Pharmacytimes.com. (2019). Technician Medication Reconciliation in Primary Care Is an Overlooked Opportunity. [online] Available at:<br \/>\nhttps:\/\/www.pharmacytimes.com\/publications\/issue\/2019\/january2019\/technician-medication-reconciliation-in-primary-care-is-an-overlooked-opportunity [Accessed<br \/>\n27 May 2019].<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A pilot program; retrospective chart review &nbsp; Setting: Primary care &#8211; Boise VA Medical Center &#8211; A program aimed to evaluate a pharmacy technician-directed medication reconciliation process in the primary care setting from Feb 2015 &#8211; April 2015 &#8211; Following completion of the pharmacy techdirected MR pilot, a retrospective chart review was done to identify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[25,10,11,26],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-29 17:01:15","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":765,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/587\/revisions\/765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}