Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00281450
An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions for Elderly Patients in General Practice
A Cluster Randomized Educational Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescription Patterns for Elderly Patients in General Practice
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- Phase 1 / Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 85,836 (actual)
- Sponsor
- University of Oslo · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- —
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients \> 70 years.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| BEHAVIORAL | Educational intervention | We developed a set of explicit criteria for pharmacological inappropriateness for Norwegian GPs' prescribing to elderly patients. The main purpose of the criteria was to serve as quality indicators during an educational intervention: the Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study, aimed at improving GPs' prescribing for elderly patients. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2006-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2007-03-01
- Completion
- 2007-03-01
- First posted
- 2006-01-24
- Last updated
- 2010-04-28
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00281450. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.