NCT03173690

Medicines Reconciliation at an Intensive Care Unit

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University Hospital, Akershus · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Medicines Reconciliation
• Intensive Care Unit

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medication reconciliation at the ICU	Medication reconciliation performed according to Integrated Medicines Management model
OTHER	Medication Reconciliation at the Ward	Medication reconciliation performed according to Integrated Medicines Management model

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-06
• Primary completion: 2017-07-06
• Completion: 2017-10-01
• First posted: 2017-06-02
• Last updated: 2017-07-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway