ASHP/ASHP FoundationContinuity of Care in Medication Use Summit

June 5 and 6, 2007

Summit Background

• Thirty participant interdisciplinary consensus conference

• Goals:1. Determine minimum data elements to be included

in a medication list;

2. Identify and discuss barriers and resolutions to the use of medication lists; and

3. Develop a framework for further research and a national social marketing campaign.

Consensus-Based Medication List

Minimum Data Elements

Immediate Next Steps

• Publication of executive summary in the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy

• Development of a literacy-sensitive and patient-centered tool – My Medicine List

• Promotion of My Medicine List during National Pharmacy Week (October 21 – 27, 2007) and National Poison Prevention Week (March 2008)

• ASHP Foundation sponsorship of a University of Pittsburgh study entitled “Development of a Continuity of Care Record: Bridging the Medication Use Gap from Hospital to Home”

• Collaboration with the National Transitions of Care Coalition• Inclusion in the American Pharmacists Association Medication

Therapy Management Core Elements