Medicines Reconciliation at an Intensive Care Unit
Medicines Reconciliation at an Intensive Care Unit
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.
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.
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