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Of all
potentially preventable
drug-related revisits (n=85), 56 (44 readmissions and 12 ED visits) were
preceded by a hospital-based medication review in the MedBridge trial
(Figure 2). Of these visits, 22 (39%) could potentially have been
prevented by that intervention. None of the visits seemed to have been
caused by the medication review.
Five patient cases are described in Table 4 to exemplify the diseases
related to and causes of preventable drug-related revisits, their origin
in healthcare and whether the revisits could have been prevented by the
medication review performed during the MedBridge trial.