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UnknownNCT01823757
Pharmaceutical Care in VA Nursing Home
The Impacts of Pharmaceutical Cares on the Elderly in a VA Nursing Home.
- Status
- Unknown
- Phase
- —
- Study type
- Observational
- Enrollment
- 100 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Taichung Veterans General Hospital · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
This study investigates the effect of pharmaceutical care on a Veteran nursing home. 100 patients will be selected into this controlled study.The hypothesis are: 1. After patients receive pharmaceutical care, their drug related problems will be decreased. 2. After patients received pharmaceutical care, their self-reported medical expenditure will be decreased.
Detailed description
Around 200 residents in a Veteran nursing home will be selected for reviewing inclusion and exclusion criteria. A total of 100 subjected are selected into this randomized controlled trial. Each group will have 50 subjects and then divides into 4 subgroup, according to their drug items used (5-7 and over 8 items used). The inclusion criteria: 1. Residents of the Veteran nursing home. 2. over 65 years old. 3. complete comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) 4. prescription drugs more than 4 times/day, excluding stat order. 5. with 2 or more chronic diseases. Exclusion criteria: 1\. residents who were in the pharmaceutical care project of Taiwan Pharmacists Association.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| OTHER | Pharmaceutical care | pharmacists provide pharmaceutical care to the intervention group, comparing to ordinary care in control group |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2013-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-07-01
- Completion
- 2015-12-01
- First posted
- 2013-04-04
- Last updated
- 2014-08-28
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Taiwan
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01823757. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.