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Study type\/ Setting<\/strong><\/td>\nMethods<\/strong><\/td>\nOutcomes<\/strong><\/td>\nRecommendations<\/strong><\/td>\nSource<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Emphasized the importance of complete medication history from different sources e.g. physicians, pharmacists and case notes that includes allergy, drug interaction, OTC inclusion, common side effects.<\/td>\n\u00a0- Cited one study where 59 patients out of 101 patients reported the use of 129 forms of CAMs, but only 36 were documented in the medical record<\/td>\nRecommended some measures that would provide complete medication list<\/p>\n

1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Pharmacist-led med history taking<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Educating newly qualified prescribers on clinical pharmacology, OTC<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 E-prescribing with pre-populated warning messages<\/td>\n

Fitzgerald RJ (2009)<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Fitzgerald RJ. Medication errors: the importance of an accurate drug history. British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 2009;67(6):671-675. doi:10.1111\/j.1365-
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Study type\/ Setting Methods Outcomes Recommendations Source Review     Emphasized the importance of complete medication history from different sources e.g. physicians, pharmacists and case notes that includes allergy, drug interaction, OTC inclusion, common side effects. \u00a0– Cited one study where 59 patients out of 101 patients reported the use of 129 forms of CAMs, […]<\/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":[29],"tags":[33,10,11,31,32],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 16:02:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":767,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/health-interoperability-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}