Why the study?
Do medication reviews reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department contacts in hospitalised adult patients?
Do medication reviews reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department contacts in hospitalised adult patients?
Medication reviews in hospitalized patients likely reduce hospital readmissions and emergency department contacts, though they do not appear to impact mortality.
Supports medication reviews at discharge to reduce readmissions; extends low-certainty evidence without mortality benefit.
Medication reviews in hospitalised adult patients likely reduce hospital readmissions and may reduce emergency department contacts. The evidence suggests that mediation reviews may have little to no effect on mortality, while the effect on health-related quality of life is very uncertain. Almost all trials included elderly polypharmacy patients, which limits the generalisability of the results beyond this population.
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Bülow et al. (2023) studied this question.
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