Potentially harmful discrepancies in admission and discharge orders per patient | Control units | Intervention units | ||
Preimplementation n=309 Mean (SD) | Postimplementation n=244 Mean (SD) | Preimplementation n=304 Mean (SD) | Postimplementation n=791 Mean (SD) | |
Site 1* | 0.46 (0.91) | 0.98 (1.43) | NA | NA |
Site 2 | 0.98 (1.83) | 1.32 (2.19) | 1.00 (1.00) | 0.88 (1.12) |
Site 3 | 0.17 (0.65) | 0.23 (0.54) | 0.30 (0.95) | 0.18 (0.57) |
Site 4 | NA | NA | 0.19 (0.53) | 0.79 (1.48) |
Site 5 | NA | NA | 0.35 (0.83) | 0.26 (0.59) |
*Did not implement any Multi-Center Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS) toolkit interventions but did implement a new electronic health record (EHR) during the implementation period. Intention-to-treat analysis.
NA, not applicable.