Table 2. Discharge medication reconciliation patient characteristics.

Characteristics	Surgery patients (n = 34)	Medicine patients (n = 33)	P
MREC form signed and dated	30 (88)	30 (91)	1.00
Number of discharge medications, mean ± SD	10 ± 6	9.6 ± 5	.77
Patients with >10 discharge medications	16 (47)	16 (47)	1.00
Patients with errors on MREC	22 (65)	15 (45)	.14
Errors identified by pharmacists	48	36
No. of errors per patient, mean ± SD	1.4 ± 1.4	1.1 ± 2.6	.53
Phone call to provider required to resolve errors	16 (47)	13 (39)	.47
Errors corrected following phone call	30 (63)	25 (69)	.18
Time in minutes required for MREC verification, mean ± SD	20 ± 12	14 ± 14	.06

Note: Results reported as n (%) unless otherwise noted. Categorical data was evaluated using Fisher’s exact and chi-square tests and continuous data was evaluated using t tests. MREC = medication reconciliation.