NCT02413957

Medication Reconciliation in Comparison to an Extensive Medication Safety Check

Pilot Project to Investigate the Influence of Medication Reconciliation and an Extensive Medication Safety Check on the Number of Adverse Drug Events in the Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 220 (actual)
• Sponsor: RWTH Aachen University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine wether an extensive medication safety check has a greater impact on the incidence of adverse drug events than medication reconciliation or no intervention.

Conditions

• Elderly
• Adverse Drug Event

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medication Reconciliation	Pharmacist take the best possible medication history (BPMH), comparison of the BPMH with the admission order (AMO), clarify and solve al discrepancies between the BPMH and the AMO.
OTHER	Pharmaceutical Care	Checking medication under safety considerations (medication at admission, during hospital stay, at discharge); recommendations for inappropriate medication (e.g. contraindications or interactions) or medication related problems. Pharmaceutical care includes Medication Reconciliation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2016-01-01
• Completion: 2016-01-01
• First posted: 2015-04-10
• Last updated: 2017-01-11

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany