Discharge Medication Reconciliation Changes

Coming March 14, 2017...

Discharge Med Reconciliation Changes:  In an effort to reduce medication errors during the discharge med reconciliation process, Use and Standards voted to remove the medication defaults and add two buttons for “Continue Remaining Home Meds” and “Do Not Continue Remaining Orders.”  This will help protect providers who discharge patients from making inadvertent medication errors involving duplicate therapies due to the medication defaults.

Use and Standards Decision: Remove all defaults.  Add a button for “Continue Remaining Home Meds” and a button for “Do Not Continue Remaining Orders.”

First, the provider should address all meds that specifically need to be continued, prescribed or discontinued after discharge. 

When Continue Remaining Home Meds button is clicked, documented home meds and prescriptions change to Continue with a status of ‘Documented’ or ‘Prescribed’.  Any changes that were already made will persist.

When the Do Not Continue Remaining Orders button is clicked, all inpatient and home medication orders that have not been addressed will be marked as Do Not Continue.