Medicines Reconciliation at an Intensive Care Unit

University Hospital, Akershus

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Intensive Care Unit; Medicines Reconciliation

Treatments: Other: Medication Reconciliation at the Ward; Other: Medication reconciliation at the ICU

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03173690

16-186

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the effect of performing medicines reconciliation on patients admitted to an intensive care unit. Half of the patients will receive a medicines reconciliation at the intensive care unit. The other half will not. All included patients will receive medicines reconciliation after transfer to the ward.

Full description

Transfer of patients from one level of care to another is known to increase the risk of medication errors. Medication reconciliation is an accepted intervention to increase the knowledge on the patients medication use, thus reducing the risk of avoidable medication errors. For patients in the intensive care unit treatment of the imminent threat is obviously the most important. Nevertheless, knowledge about previous medications are important.

Enrollment: 50 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• belonging to the hospitals intake area
• written informed concent by the patient or his/her next to kin

Exclusion criteria

• Patients without next to kin
• Not Norwegian speaking, in need of a translator
• medication reconciliation performed earlier
• Patients with Guillain-Barre or Myasthenia Gravis, due to long expectancy of stay
• Short life expectancy, decided in cooperation with the physician

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group

Experimental group

Description:

Receive medication reconciliation at the ICU, pluss medication reconciliation at the ward

Treatment:

Other: Medication Reconciliation at the Ward

Other: Medication reconciliation at the ICU

Control group

Other group

Description:

No intervention at the ICU, medication reconciliation at the ward

Treatment:

Other: Medication Reconciliation at the Ward