Pharmacist-led medication reconciliation at patient discharge: a tool to reduce healthcare utilization? an observational study in patients 65 years or older.

Background: Older patients often experience adverse drug events (ADEs) after discharge that may lead to unplanned readmission. Medication Reconciliation (MR) reduces medication errors that lead to ADEs, but results on healthcare utilization are still controversial. This study aimed to assess the effect of MR at discharge (MRd) provided to patients aged over 65 on their unplanned rehospitalization within 30 days and on both patients' experience of discharge and their knowledge of their medication.

[Characteristics of patients admitted from emergency units in 18 internal medicine departments and organisation of these departments: A cross sectional study from SNFMI (SiFMI study group) in 2015].

Introduction: Patients admitted from emergency units represent a large portion of the population in internal medicine departments. The aim of this study is to identify characteristics of patients and organization of these departments.

Methods: Between June 29th and July 26th 2015, voluntary internal medicine departments from the SiFMI group prospectively filled anonymized internet forms to collect data of each patients admitted in their ward from emergency units, during seven consecutive days.

A Cross-Sectional Retrospective Study of Non-Splenectomized and Never-Treated Patients with Type 1 Gaucher Disease.

Patients with type 1 Gaucher disease (GD1) present thrombocytopenia, anemia, organomegaly, and bone complications. Most experts consider that the less aggressive forms do not require specific treatment. However, little is known about the disease course of these forms.