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Characteristics Associated With Postdischarge Medication Errors
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Objective: To examine the association of patient-and medication-related factors with postdischarge medication errors. Patients and Methods: The Vanderbilt Inpatient Cohort Study includes adults hospitalized with acute coronary syndromes and/or acute decompensated heart failure. We measured health literacy, subjective numeracy, marital status, cognition, social support, educational attainment, income, depression, global health status, and medication adherence in patients enrolled from October 1, 2011, through August 31, 2012. We used binomial logistic regression to determine predictors of discordance between the discharge medication list and the patient-reported list during postdischarge medication review. Results: Among 471 patients (mean age, 59 years), the mean total number of medications reported was 12, and 79 patients (16.8%) had inadequate or marginal health literacy. A total of 242 patients (51.4%) were taking 1 or more discordant medication (ie, appeared on either the discharge list or patient-reported list but not both), 129 (27.4%) failed to report a medication on their discharge list, and 168 (35.7%) reported a medication not on their discharge list. In addition, 279 participants (59.2%) had a misunderstanding in indication, dose, or frequency in a cardiac medication. In multivariable analyses, higher subjective numeracy (odds ratio [OR], 0.81; 95% CI, 0.67-0.98) was associated with lower odds of having discordant medications. For cardiac medications, participants with higher health literacy (OR, 0.84; 95% CI, 0.74-0.95), with higher subjective numeracy (OR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.63-0.95), and who were female (OR, 0.60; 95% CI, 0.46-0.78) had lower odds of misunderstandings in indication, dose, or frequency. Conclusion: Medication errors are present in approximately half of patients after hospital discharge and are more common among patients with lower numeracy or health literacy. (C) 2014 Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
Keywords:
ADVERSE DRUG EVENTS
PATIENTS AFTER-DISCHARGE
HEALTH LITERACY
HOSPITAL DISCHARGE
INPATIENT
ADHERENCE
CARE
RECONCILIATION
NUMERACY
OUTCOMES
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