Conciliación de medicamentos e identificación de los tipos de discrepancias al ingreso, durante la hospitalización y al alta en pacientes del área de ginecología del Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso. Cuenca, 2015

Abstract

Medication conciliation is the right combination of knowledge and scientific evidence of the reactions, interactions and patient needs, essentially the proper use of medications. Objective: Establish medication conciliation and identify the types of discrepancies at admission, during hospitalization and at discharge of patients in the area of gynecology, in the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital. Cuenca, 2016. Methods and techniques: A descriptive study was designed, a population of 200 patients hospitalized in the area of gynecology at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital, during 2 months of 2015, we collected data using a form of two-stage for conciliation from the requirements of medical records and interview of patients, They were enter into the SPSS 15 software for tabulation, analysis, presentation of tables. Results: 161 unjustified discrepancies were found and 42 were justified during the conciliation process on average 1.87 discrepancies per patient. The most common error conciliation income corresponds to different dose, route and frequency of administration with 84.6% during hospitalization and at discharge, corresponding to an incomplete prescriptions with 40% and 60.3% respectively. Conclusions: The frequency of medication conciliation performed at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital was 15%. 52% of patients are at risk for discrepancies in prescriptions, 43% of them are errors in the conciliation and 9% are justified discrepancies. Keywords: RECONCILIATION OF DRUGS, PRESCRIPTION DRUG MISUSE, MEDICATION COMPLIANCE, HOSPITAL SYSTEM OF MEDICATION, MEDICATION ERRORS