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42% of all Americans have taken a prescription medication. Elderly patients account for >50% of all prescription drug use1. Based on an Institute of Medicine report, for every 1 medication prescribed, there is at least 1 associated adverse drug event. The prevention of medication errors has become a national public health priority.

Patients are routinely prescribed multiple medications by multiple physicians. In practice, pertinent medical consult reports are often not received by the patient’s primary care doctor in a timely manner.
Medical Records
Few clinics have electronic medical records (<24%)2, prescribe electronically, or are linked to pharmacy systems for medication profiles. Unfortunately, this leads to instances where a health care provider may have to make a medical decision on which medication to prescribe or change without complete knowledge of the patient’s medication history.

Health care providers do not often have the time in a 20 minute patient visit, to physically review a patient’s medications or call the pharmacy each time to see which prescriptions have been actually picked up3, 4. Keeping track of a patient’s medication profile becomes even more difficult for elderly patients who are often on several medications. Due to age-related cognitive impairment, many of these patients have difficulty remembering which medications they are taking at home. A physician’s medical record list can be inaccurate if a patient is not taking certain medications due to financial reasons or is taking multiple over the counter products.

Doctors talking about CapsulCardThe CapsulCard™ provides the health care professional, caregiver, and/or patient a sense of the medications (prescription and over the counter) a patient is taking. This facilitates a quick review for:
  • inappropriate medications,
  • drug interactions, and/or
  • dosing errors
1http://www.accp.com/position/pos9.pdf
2http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/pubs/pubd/hestats/electronic/electronic.htm, Accessed May, 2008.
3Campion EW. A symptom of discontent. NEJM 2001; 344:223-225.
4Mechanic D, McAlpine D, Rosenthal M. Are patients' office visits with physicians getting shorter? NEJM. 2001; 344:198-204.


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Not only does the convenient availability of this information help the health care provider optimally treat the patient, but it acts as a record-keeping tool for your patient to communicate to others in potentially emergent situations his/her medication history.