NCT02053194

A Trial to De-prescribe Inappropriate Medications in the Community Dwelling Elderly

Developing Pharmacist-led Research to Educate and Sensitive Community Residents to the Inappropriate Prescription Burden in the Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 4
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 600 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The objective of this trial is to test the beneficial effect of a pharmacist-initiated knowledge transfer intervention to both patients and prescribers on the discontinuation of inappropriate prescriptions, compared to usual care. The investigators hypothesize that the pharmacist-led intervention will reduce inappropriate prescriptions by at least 20% over 6-months compared to usual care. The intervention consists of simultaneously educating consumers and providing physicians with an evidence-based pharmaceutical opinion on inappropriate prescriptions.

Conditions

• Inappropriate Dose of Drug Administered
• Health Behavior

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Pharmacist-led educational intervention	1\) Educational material to participants in the form of a written educational brochure on inappropriate prescriptions that was developed and tested during the EMPOWER study. 2) Evidence-based pharmaceutical opinions sent to the treating physicians.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-03-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2014-02-03
• Last updated: 2018-01-25