Nationally Shared Medication Lists – Describing Systems in the Nordic Countries

This paper provides an overview of shared medication lists (SMLs) in
four Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden) with a focus on the
type of information the list is based on. This is a structured comparison conducted
in stages using an expert group, grey papers, unpublished materials, web pages, as
well as scientific papers. Denmark and Finland have implemented their solutions for
an SML and Norway and Sweden are working on the implementation of their
solution. Denmark and Norway have or are aiming at a list based on medication
orders, while Finland and Sweden have lists based on prescriptions.