Watch Out for Drug List Discrepancies and MDAPEs

Geriatricians shouldn’t trust the medication lists provided by their patients’ general practitioners (GPs) or pharmacies—and they should be on the lookout for medication discrepancy adverse patient events (MDAPEs). These were the conclusions of researchers from Slotervaart Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands after studying medication list discrepancies, MDAPEs, and possible contributing factors to both problems in 120 patients at their hospital’s geriatric outpatient clinic.