Patient Engagement Interventions to Improve Medication Management of Older Patients Across Transitions of Care: A Mixed Methods Systematic Review.

Studies were included regardless of their quality or risk of bias scores. Only English-language reports were included. Hospital readmission was measured at different time points across studies. Patient outcomes such as satisfaction and medication adherence were not measured consistently across studies. Most interventions were multimodal, so the effect of individual components cannot be isolated. Many studies did not report enough detail about patients' cultural, socioeconomic or health literacy backgrounds.

This work was supported by a National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Grant. The sponsor had no role in the design, methods, data extraction, data synthesis, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors declared no conflicts of interest.

Do not conclude that medication reconciliation alone reduced readmissions. Many included interventions were multimodal and used different components, including patient education, medication reconciliation or review, use of specialist nurse or healthcare professional, health records or medication support tools, shared decision-making, care transitions and discharge planning, and follow-up home visits or telephone calls, so the contribution of any single component cannot be separated.