Study inclusion criteria
| Characteristics | Criteria for quantitative studies |
| Population | Patients discharged from hospital to their permanent residence (home, residential unit or nursing home) |
| Intervention of interest | Medicines reconciliation completed by a pharmacist based in the community |
| Comparator | Usual care processes for medication reconciliation |
| Outcome measure | Discrepancy identification Discrepancy categorisation Healthcare usage (readmission, emergency department attendance, GP attendance) Workload/efficiency measures—time to complete medicines reconciliation, effect on number of primary and secondary care appointments needed, and economic outcomes |
| Study design | RCTs, cluster RCTs, quasi-RCTs, cluster quasi-RCTs, controlled pre–post intervention studies, interrupted-time-series, cohort studies (prospective or retrospective), case–control studies, uncontrolled pre–post intervention studies |
| Language | No limitation |
| Publication date | No limitation |
GP, general practitioner or primary care physician; RCTs, randomised controlled trials.