Identifying medication‐related readmissions: Two students using tools vs a multidisciplinary panel
(2021) International Journal of Clinical Practice — Vol. 75, n° 11, p. e14768 (2021)
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Kloes, Jozien 
Karapinar‐Çarkit, Fatma
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- (en) BACKGROUND: Polypharmacy may result in medication-related readmissions (MRRs). Identifying MRRs is time consuming. Screening of readmissions by students could increase efficiency for healthcare professionals. Recently, two screening tools have been published: the Assessment Tool for identifying Hospital Admissions Related to Medications (AT-HARM10) tool and the Drug-Related Admission (DRA) adjudication guide. It is unknown whether pharmacy students could identify MRRs with these tools. OBJECTIVE: To compare the agreement between two pharmacy students applying the AT-HARM10 tool and DRA adjudication guide in identifying MRRs vs a multidisciplinary panel. METHODS: A retrospective study was conducted from February to July 2020 at OLVG hospital. Readmissions within 30 days after discharge from seven departments were reviewed by a multidisciplinary panel (pharmacists and physicians). MRRs were defined as readmission where medication was the main cause or medication significantly contributed to the readmission. Two 5th year pharmacy-students volunteered to blindly apply both tools individually on all MRRs and a random sample of non-MRRs. The consensus results of the students and the multidisciplinary panel were compared and displayed as a percentage and Cohen's kappa (κ). RESULTS: Three hundred sixty-six readmission cases were selected in total, consisting of 181 MRRs and 185 non-MRRs. The agreement between the students using the AT-HARM10 tool vs the multidisciplinary panel was moderate (80%, κ = 0.60 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.52-0.68)). The DRA adjudication guide had a moderate agreement (81%, κ = 0.62 (CI: 0.54-0.70)). Students misclassified MRRs mainly because the multidisciplinary panel found disease progression more profound than a contribution of medication. CONCLUSIONS: Two students have an overall agreement of 80% in comparison with the multidisciplinary panel with a moderate Cohen's kappa. Students are more often overestimated, but they may be a good option to preselect potential MRRs to save time for healthcare professionals. However, some MRRs will be missed.
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Coppes, T., Kloes, J., Dalleur, O., & Karapinar‐Çarkit, F. (2021). Identifying medication‐related readmissions: Two students using tools vs a multidisciplinary panel. International Journal of Clinical Practice, 75(11), e14768. https://doi.org/10.1111/ijcp.14768 (Original work published 2021)