The pilot study of the “Concilia Medicamentos” program developed by the General Council of Pharmaceutical Colleges in collaboration with USAL and CINFA was presented at the 10th Pharmaceutical Congress of Castile and Leon.

Patient safety is a fundamental objective of quality healthcare policies. One of the most common safety problems is the lack of accurate and complete information on the medication taken by the patient. Likewise, there is a high probability during hospital stays that the patient’s pharmacological treatment may be modified. Therefore, coordination among pharmaceutical professionals within the different levels of care is fundamental for avoiding oversights, duplications or interactions, among other types of mistakes. The transition of a patient between levels of care is one of the most common causes for errors associated with drug taking to occur.

This was the objective of the research project “Pilot Study on the Service of Medication Reconciliation of Hospital Patients in the Community Pharmacy” of the “Concilia Medicamentos” program, whose results were presented at the 10th Pharmaceutical Congress of Castile and Leon held on the 25th and 26th of May in Salamanca, specifically at the Hospedería Fonseca of the USAL.

More information:  Comunicación Universidad de Salamanca

 

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Juan Manuel Corchado (15 May 1971, Salamanca, Spain) is Professor at the University of Salamanca. He has been Vice-Rector for Research from 2013 to 2017 and Director of the Science Park of the University of Salamanca. Elected as Dean of the Faculty of Science twice, he holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Salamanca and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of the West of Scotland. He leads the renowned BISITE (Bioinformatics, Intelligent Systems and Educational Technology) Research Group, created in 2000. Director of the IoT Digital Innovation Hub and President of the AIR Institute, J. M. Corchado is also Visiting Professor at the Osaka Institute of Technology since January 2015, Visiting Professor at the Universiti Malaysia Kelantan and Member of the Advisory Group on Online Terrorist Propaganda of the European Counter Terrorism Centre (EUROPOL). J. M. Corchado has been president of the IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society, and academic coordinator of the University Institute for Research in Art and Animation Technology at the University of Salamanca, as well as researcher at the Universities of Paisley (UK), Vigo (Spain) and the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (UK). He currently combines all his activity with the direction of Master programmes in Security, Digital Animation, Mobile Telephony, Information Systems Management, Internet of Things, Social Media, 3D Design and Printing, Blockchain, Z System, Industry 4.0, Agile Project Management, and Smart Cities & Intelligent Buildings, at the University of Salamanca and his work as editor-in-chief of the journals ADCAIJ (Advances in Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence Journal), OJCST (Oriental Journal of Computer Science and Technology) or Electronics MDPI (Computer Science & Engineering section). J. M. Corchado mainly works on projects related to Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Blockchain, IoT, Fog Computing, Edge Computing, Smart Cities, Smart Grids and Sentiment Analysis. He has recently been included in the board of trustees of the AstraZeneca Foundation, along with other health professionals and researchers recognised for bringing scientific knowledge closer to society.

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