Medication Management Strategies at Hospital Admission: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis
Tara Emadi, Chin Hang Yiu, Shania Liu, Dihan Tang, Kingston Yeung, Melissa Baysari, Charley Budgeon, Stephen Carter, Deirdre Criddle, Cristen Fleming, Martina Francis, Charu Grover, Andrew Hawthorne, Deborah Hawthorne, Alexander Khlentzos, Jillian Khlentzos, Linda Krogh, Faye McMillan, Rebekah Moles · 2026
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Tara Emadi and a large team reviewed strategies to manage medicines when patients enter hospital, in a paper from twenty twenty-six. Admission is a risky moment: lists get copied wrong, doses are delayed, and charts err. Most admission lists, studies suggest, contain at least one error.
Nineteen trials were gathered and sorted into five strategy families, from checking lists against records to pharmacists co-writing the chart. List checking alone did little. Pairing it with other steps cut harmful drug events more clearly. Pharmacist co-charting stood out in pooled analysis for cutting errors and events. Deaths, readmissions, and stay length, though, barely moved. The authors call for stronger trials on those harder outcomes.
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| CREATOR | Tara Emadi, Chin Hang Yiu, Shania Liu, Dihan Tang, Kingston Yeung, Melissa Baysari, Charley Budgeon, Stephen Carter, Deirdre Criddle, Cristen Fleming, Martina Francis, Charu Grover, Andrew Hawthorne, Deborah Hawthorne, Alexander Khlentzos, Jillian Khlentzos, Linda Krogh, Faye McMillan, Rebekah Moles |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 52 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |