HOME SAFE - HOW PHARMACISTS CAN HELP HIGH RISK PATIENTS NAVIGATE THE CARE CONTINUUM

• In: What’s new in practice? Part 1 on Tuesday, 24 September 2019, 11:00-11:10
• At: AbuDhabi (United Arab Emirates) (2019)
• Type: Presentation
• By: CRIDDLE, Deirdre (Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Pharmacy Department and Complex Needs Coordination Team, Australia)
• Co-author(s): Deirdre Thelma Criddle: Pharmacy Department and Complex Needs Coordination Team, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
  David Lui: Pharmacy Department and Complex Needs Coordination Team, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
  Xaysja Hill: Pharmacy Department and Complex Needs Coordination Team, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, Perth, Australia
  Benjamin Devine: Complex Needs Coordination Team, South Metropolitan Health Service, Perth, Australia
  Rhonda Clifford: Allied Health (Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences , University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Improving medication management across the care continuum is one of the greatest challenges in modern health care. An adverse event occurs in nearly 20% of patients discharged from the hospital to home setting, with two thirds of these adverse events being medication-related.¹

  Methods

  200 patients admitted to either a surgical or

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