A four-year evaluation of the discharge medicines review service provision across all Wales

• In: D16 Whats new in practice? Part 2 on Tuesday, 4 September 2018, 14:50 -15:00
• At: Glasgow (Scotland) (2018)
• Type: Presentation
• By: HODSON, Karen (Cardiff University, United Kingdom)
• Co-author(s): Karen Hodson: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Louise Hughes: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Yolanda Chikomba: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Sophie Corteville: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Lucy Jeffreys: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Rabia Rafiq: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Ismael Yasin: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Rhian Deslandes: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Efi Mantzourani: School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Andrew Evans: , Welsh Government, Cardiff, United Kingdom;, Welsh Government, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  Cheryl Way: , NHS Wales Informatics Service, Cardiff, United Kingdom
  
• Abstract:

  Background

  Transition of care between different healthcare settings can lead to medication errors. In 2011, the Welsh Government introduced a community pharmacy service, the ‘Discharge Medicines Review’ (DMR), to address this problem.  DMRs require the community pharmacist to identify any discrepancies between the discharge prescription and the

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