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Study characteristics
Methods	RCT. RCT ‐ individual to determine the impact of an early medication reconciliation (MR) in patients evaluated in the emergency department (ED) and identify barriers to reconciling medication in the ED. Unit of allocation: patients Unit of analysis: patients
Participants	Patients ≥ 65 years old, taking a high alert medication (i.e. anticoagulants, opioids, insulin), or if the patient’s physician deemed it necessary, from the University of California Davis Medical Center (UCDMC) in Sacramento (N = 307). Elderly IP (ED)
Interventions	Intervention Human resources, medication reconciliation Patients agreeing to receive MR were randomly assigned to receive either: Intervention: MR completed prior to admission Control: MR standard of care
Outcomes	Discrepancies in prescriptions
Notes	No financial support stated No trial number
Risk of bias
Bias	Authors' judgement	Support for judgement
Random sequence generation (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No information provided
Allocation concealment (selection bias)	Unclear risk	No information provided
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	All unintentional discrepancies were regarded as errors and were then given to a panel of experts for severity ranking (1 = severe error, 4 = non‐significant error). No information provided on the main outcome assessment (unintentional discrepancy)
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes	Unclear risk	No information provided.
Selective reporting (reporting bias)	Unclear risk	Insufficient information to permit judgement of ‘Low risk’ or ‘High risk’.
Conflict of interest	Unclear risk	No description
Other bias	Unclear risk	No information on baseline characteristics of included patients was provided. "A total of 307 patients were enrolled in the study (treatment = 134 and control = 173". The authors mentioned "barriers to MR included: constant movement of patients on the floor, frequent room changes, patients unable to give history due to acuity, inability to reach family or caregiver, and patients discharge before MR can be completed".