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will increase the efficiency of the hospital service and improve the patient experience. 1. Department of Health, 2004. Achieving timely ‘simple’ discharge from hospital. A toolkit for the multi-disciplinary team. [pdf] London: Department of Health. Available at: http://www.bipsolutions.com/docstore/pdf/8092.pdf. [Accessed 08/11/2013]. 2. Onatade R, Mehta R. DNA/RNA Synthesis inhibitor Improving the patients’; discharge experience is an important pharmacy goal. Quality Assessment: Pharmacy in Practice (2009);19(3):11–13. S. Dharasa, B. Dean Franklina,b aUCL School of Pharmacy, London, UK, bImperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK We wanted to establish what information elective surgery and emergency medical patients bring into hospital about their regular medication. Overall, 90 (63%) of 144 patients taking regular medication brought

in information about their medication; most was paper-based and none OSI-906 was electronic. Patients should be encouraged to carry information about their medication and be informed about the various booklets, devices and electronic applications available. Obtaining an accurate medication history enables healthcare professionals to make fully informed decisions regarding treatment for hospital inpatients. Currently in England there is no centralised information system to share medication-related information between primary and secondary care. Ascertaining a medication history therefore relies on obtaining information from various sources, including the patient. Information that inpatients bring into hospital with them is likely to contribute to accurate recording of medication histories and hence the safe prescribing of drugs. Initiatives such as My Medication Passport1 encourage patients to hold a personal record of their medications to help transfer information between healthcare providers. Our

objectives were to explore whether patients taking regular medication bring in information about this when admitted to hospital, and to describe the types of information provided. DNA ligase We studied an elective surgical admissions ward and an emergency medical admissions ward in a teaching hospital in Spring 2013. We focused on patients taking regular long term medication prior to admission as pilot work suggested patients found it difficult to decide which “when required” medication to report. We excluded patients admitted from care homes. Data were recorded by a pharmacy student shadowing the ward pharmacist or technician while they ascertained patients’; medication histories on the study wards. The different types of information brought in by patients were recorded, as were basic patient demographics. Data were analysed descriptively with differences between ward, gender and type of admission explored using chi square tests as an exploratory analysis.