Table 1.

Characteristics of types of medication reviews [8]

	Purpose	Patient's presence	Access to patient's notes	All prescription medicines	Prescription, complementary and over-the-counter medicines	Review of medicines and/or condition
Type 1: prescription review	Address technical issues relating to prescription	No	Possibly	Possibly	No	Medicines
Type 2: concordance and compliance review	Address issues relating to patient's medicine-taking behaviour	Usually	Possibly	Yes	Yes	Medicines use
Type 3: clinical medication review	Address issues relating to the patient's use of medicines in the context of their clinical condition	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Medicines and condition