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## Introduction Transitioning is the process of preparing, planning and moving from children’s to adult services.^1^ More young people are surviving with long-term conditions and it is therefore inevitable that more patients will require specialist care into adulthood.^2^ Effective transition requires effective communication and planning between paediatric and adult multidisciplinary teams and must engage both the patient and their parents/carers.^1^ A trust critical care transition pathway was developed in 2016 by the adult and paediatric critical care teams. ## Case summary A 17-year-old transitioning patient required an urgent transfer from paediatric to adult critical care to receive treatment that was unavailable at the paediatric trust. On arrival at the adult trust, it became apparent that patients’ previous and current drug history and allergy status was poorly documented resulting in confusion and delay in medicines administration. A review of the trust and critical care transitioning pathways showed that very little information on medication history, if any, was documented throughout the transitioning process. Adult and paediatric critical care clinical pharmacy teams met

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Author

Karen Bourne; Shreen Howson

Publisher

BMJ Publishing Group; BMJ (ISSN 0003-9888)

Published

2019

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)