Medication reconciliation has a strong impact on the prevention of adverse events and mistakes related to medications. The study aimed to observe the occurrence of divergences in the pharmacotherapy of surgical patients. Polymedicated patients were considered as those who used three or more medications. The sources used were the patient himself, his companion, the drugs taken at home taken to the hospital, and ...
CNPQ; The medication reconciliation process (RIM) have great impact in preventing adverse events and errors related to drugs and is a formal process of obtaining a complete and accurate listing of household medication that is compared to the hospital prescription list. The discrepancies found during this process can cause harm to patients. This becomes more serious when polymedicated patients, using three or mo...