Table 2.

Medication changes and communication at discharge for medicines that have been newly started, doses changed or stopped

	Newly started	Dose changed	Stopped	Unintentionally omitted
Number of patients who had at least one medication change*	1146	336	388	479
Total number of medicines started, dose changed, stopped or unintentionally omitted	3164	477	738	1565
Number of medicines that had a reason documented for the medication change	562 (49%)	186 (39%)	420 (57%)	0
Percentage of patients who had their medication changes actioned on the GP system	Yes (53%), no (13%) and no action required (34%).	Yes (65%), no (34.5%) and no action required (0.5%).	Yes (74.5%), no (21.7%) and data unavailable (3.6%).	Not assessed.
Percentage of patients who had their medication changes intentionally disregarded by the GP	Yes (16%), no (78.6%) and data unavailable (5.7%).	Yes (22.9%), no (76.5%) and data unavailable (0.6%).	Yes (12.6%), no (83.8%) and data unavailable (3.6%).	Not assessed
Percentage of patients who had their medication changes actioned incorrectly by the GP	Yes (5.7%), no (78.8%) and data unavailable (1.1%).	Yes (8.6%), no (89.9%) and data unavailable (1.5%).	Yes (6.7%), no (89.7%) and data unavailable (3.6%).	Not assessed

*Numbers exceed 1454 as patients may have had more than one medication change.

GP, general practitioner.