Purpose In many countries, outpatient and inpatient care are separated. During hospitalization, therefore, switching the outpatient medication to medication of the hospital formulary is required. Methods We newly designed a switching algorithm in six switching steps (S0–S5) and conducted a study at Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg (300 beds, 80% civilians). We performed (i) a medication reconciliation to obtain information on outpa...

Purpose In a critical care setting, we aimed to identify and solve physico-chemical drug incompatibilities in central-venous catheters considering the staffs’ knowledge and assumptions about incompatibilities. Methods (i) After positive ethical vote, an algorithm to identify incompatibilities was developed and applied. The algorithm was based on KIK ® database and Stabilis ® database, the drug label, and Trissel textbook. (ii)...