What Is Medication Reconciliation?

Medication reconciliation is the process of reviewing and updating a patient’s medication list to ensure accuracy and prevent harmful drug interactions. This is especially important during care transitions, such as hospital discharges, new diagnoses, or changes in healthcare providers.

Why is medication reconciliation important?

• Prevents medication errors: Ensures new prescriptions don’t conflict with existing ones.
• Reduces hospital readmissions: Identifies duplications, omissions, or incorrect dosages.
• Improves patient safety: Helps providers make informed treatment decisions based on a complete and accurate medication history.

When is medication reconciliation needed?

• Hospital discharge: Ensuring home medications align with new prescriptions.
• New specialist visits: Verifying all doctors have the same medication list.
• Changes in prescriptions: Avoiding interactions when adding or discontinuing medications.

How Solace can help

A Solace advocate can help gather and organize your medication history, ensure doctors and pharmacists are sharing accurate information, and assist in preventing prescription errors. If you’re unsure about your current medications or experiencing issues, an advocate can also help facilitate discussions with healthcare providers.

What to do next

Need help managing medications after a hospital stay or new diagnosis? A Solace advocate can help you get (and stay) on track. Find an advocate today.