<p>En ofullständig eller inaktuell dokumentation av läkemedel i Receptregistret och läkemedelslistorna kan leda till en sämre vetskap om vilka läkemedel som är aktuella att administrera samt till felmedicinering.</p><p>Syftet med denna studie är att hos patienter med diagnosen artros undersöka förekomsten av avvikelser mellan recept i Receptregistret på apotek, vårdcentralens läkemedelslista från ordinationsjournalen samt patienternas egen uppfattning om aktuell läkemedelsbehandling.</p><p>Studien genomfördes dels som registerstudie genom avstämning av journaldata på aktuella läkemedelsordinationer från Stensö Hälsocentral mot sparade recept i Receptregistret och dels som telefonintervju med patienterna om vilka recept som utgör hans/hennes aktuella ordinationer.</p><p>Av artrospatienternas recept i Receptregistret var 89 % aktuella och av artrospatiernas ordinationer i läkemedelslistorna på hälsocentralen var 69 % aktuella. Av alla artrospatienters ordinationer var det 52 % som var aktuella och som förekom i både Receptregistret och läkemedelslistorna.</p><p>Trots att studien är begränsad i storlek och att patienterna bara rekryterades från en vårdcentral indikerar resultaten att det finns betydande skillnader mellan artrospatienternas aktuella medicinering, deras läkemedelslistor på vårdcentral samt Receptregister från apotek. Genom att förbättra och göra regelbundna läkemedelsavstämningar efter ändringar i patientens läkemedelsbehandling, såväl på apotek som inom sjukvården, kan antalet avvikelser reduceras, följsamheten hos patienterna kan ökas genom att det blir lättare för dem att veta vilka läkemedel som är aktuella att administrera och medicineringsfel kan reduceras.</p> / <p>Misuse of drugs is a growing problem and a major cause of both morbidity and mortality in today's society. This may be a result of an incomplete or outdated medication history of patients and it is therefore important that all medical records are updated with the current drugs for the patient to use to prevent medication errors.</p><p>The ultimate effect of any drug therapy depends on the patient's decision to take their medicines as the doctor has prescribed, to have so-called adherence to their prescription medicines, which in turn depends in particular on the patient's knowledge of the drugs at issue. To assist the patient there are two kinds of printing, a list with the doctor’s prescriptions from the electronic patient record (EMR) and also a list from the national prescription repository (NPR) of all the saved prescriptions at pharmacies by the patient. Discrepancies may exist between what is documented in the patient's EMR and that in the pharmacy record, which both also may differ from the drugs that the patient actually is using. These discrepancies between the documents, which can both include valid and outdated prescriptions so as prescription duplicates, can cause a worsening of compliance and medication errors especially in patients with multiple drugs that may have difficult to keep track of their current drug treatment.</p><p>The aim of the study was compare the national prescription repository (NPR), the electronic medical records (EMR) and patient’s knowledge of the prescribed treatment for people with a diagnosis of osteoarthritis.</p><p>The study was conducted both as registry study by reconciliation of journal data on current drug prescriptions from a health centre (HCC) with saved recipes in the Swedish national prescription repository (NPR) and partly by telephone interview with patients about the prescriptions that represent his / her current prescriptions. The participation rate was 58 %. Twenty-nine patients with osteoarthritis were included in the study.</p><p>Of the osteoarthritis patients 89 % the recipes in the NPR were found to be valid and 11 % were outdated. Duplicates of recipes were estimated to 5 %, and double-medication occurred in 1 % of the recipes.</p><p>Of the patients' prescriptions in the medical records at the health centre 69 % were found to be valid. The outdated prescriptions were estimated to 31 % while 4 % was duplicates.</p><p>For all of the osteoarthritis patients' 247 drugs, only 52 % was valid and occurred both in the NPR and in the EMR.</p><p>There were major discrepancies between the prescriptions in the EMR, the NPR and what the patients with osteoarthritis are seeing as their current prescriptions. Through regular medical reconciliations after changes in the patients' treatment, in both health care and pharmacies, the discrepancies can be reduced, the patient can be surer of what to administrate and therefore medication errors can be reduced.</p>

En ofullständig eller inaktuell dokumentation av läkemedel i Receptregistret och läkemedelslistorna kan leda till en sämre vetskap om vilka läkemedel som är aktuella att administrera samt till felmedicinering. Syftet med denna studie är att hos patienter med diagnosen artros undersöka förekomsten av avvikelser mellan recept i Receptregistret på apotek, vårdcentralens läkemedelslista från ordinationsjournalen samt patienternas egen uppfattning om aktuell läkemedelsbehandling. Studien genomfördes dels som registerstudie genom avstämning av journaldata på aktuella läkemedelsordinationer från Stensö Hälsocentral mot sparade recept i Receptregistret och dels som telefonintervju med patienterna om vilka recept som utgör hans/hennes aktuella ordinationer. Av artrospatienternas recept i Receptregistret var 89 % aktuella och av artrospatiernas ordinationer i läkemedelslistorna på hälsocentralen var 69 % aktuella. Av alla artrospatienters ordinationer var det 52 % som var aktuella och som förekom i både Receptregistret och läkemedelslistorna. Trots att studien är begränsad i storlek och att patienterna bara rekryterades från en vårdcentral indikerar resultaten att det finns betydande skillnader mellan artrospatienternas aktuella medicinering, deras läkemedelslistor på vårdcentral samt Receptregister från apotek. Genom att förbättra och göra regelbundna läkemedelsavstämningar efter ändringar i patientens läkemedelsbehandling, såväl på apotek som inom sjukvården, kan antalet avvikelser reduceras, följsamheten hos patienterna kan ökas genom att det blir lättare för dem att veta vilka läkemedel som är aktuella att administrera och medicineringsfel kan reduceras. / Misuse of drugs is a growing problem and a major cause of both morbidity and mortality in today's society. This may be a result of an incomplete or outdated medication history of patients and it is therefore important that all medical records are updated with the current drugs for the patient to use to prevent medication errors. The ultimate effect of any drug therapy depends on the patient's decision to take their medicines as the doctor has prescribed, to have so-called adherence to their prescription medicines, which in turn depends in particular on the patient's knowledge of the drugs at issue. To assist the patient there are two kinds of printing, a list with the doctor’s prescriptions from the electronic patient record (EMR) and also a list from the national prescription repository (NPR) of all the saved prescriptions at pharmacies by the patient. Discrepancies may exist between what is documented in the patient's EMR and that in the pharmacy record, which both also may differ from the drugs that the patient actually is using. These discrepancies between the documents, which can both include valid and outdated prescriptions so as prescription duplicates, can cause a worsening of compliance and medication errors especially in patients with multiple drugs that may have difficult to keep track of their current drug treatment. The aim of the study was compare the national prescription repository (NPR), the electronic medical records (EMR) and patient’s knowledge of the prescribed treatment for people with a diagnosis of osteoarthritis. The study was conducted both as registry study by reconciliation of journal data on current drug prescriptions from a health centre (HCC) with saved recipes in the Swedish national prescription repository (NPR) and partly by telephone interview with patients about the prescriptions that represent his / her current prescriptions. The participation rate was 58 %. Twenty-nine patients with osteoarthritis were included in the study. Of the osteoarthritis patients 89 % the recipes in the NPR were found to be valid and 11 % were outdated. Duplicates of recipes were estimated to 5 %, and double-medication occurred in 1 % of the recipes. Of the patients' prescriptions in the medical records at the health centre 69 % were found to be valid. The outdated prescriptions were estimated to 31 % while 4 % was duplicates. For all of the osteoarthritis patients' 247 drugs, only 52 % was valid and occurred both in the NPR and in the EMR. There were major discrepancies between the prescriptions in the EMR, the NPR and what the patients with osteoarthritis are seeing as their current prescriptions. Through regular medical reconciliations after changes in the patients' treatment, in both health care and pharmacies, the discrepancies can be reduced, the patient can be surer of what to administrate and therefore medication errors can be reduced.