NCT02275572

Clinical and Economical Assessment of an Intervention to Reduce Potentially Inappropriate Medication in Polymedicated Elderly Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 503 (actual)
• Sponsor: Consorci Sanitari del Maresme · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Objective: To evaluate the clinical and economic impact of the application of an algorithm to improve the adequacy and safety of pharmacotherapy in elderly polymedicated (receiving 8 or more medications), not institutionalized. Design: randomized, open, multicenter and two branches of parallel intervention clinical trial. Intervention Study: primary care pharmacist apply the GP-GP algorithm to each drug with the support of STOPP criteria, Beers and / or recommendations CatSalut. The pharmacist submit to doctor his findings and reach a consensus and decide which recommendations will be presented to patient. Control intervention: usual procedure. Main outcome measures: a) Discontinued medications, changed or changing doses, b) GP consultations, hospital emergency department and hospital admissions for acute illness, c) pharmaceutical expenditure, d) restart medication e) complications underlying diseases. Follow-up control at 1 month (security) and at 3, 6 and 12 months.

Conditions

• Polypharmacy
• Elderly

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Pharmacist Intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-03-01
• Primary completion: 2012-05-01
• First posted: 2014-10-27
• Last updated: 2014-10-27