NCT02816086

A New Interdisciplinary Collaboration Structure to Improve Medication Safety in the Elderly

A New Interdisciplinary Collaboration Structure in Secondary and Primary Care to Improve Medication Safety in the Elderly

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 516 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Tromso · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Suboptimal use of medications among geriatric patients is well-known problem and leads to medication errors, re-hospitalizations and death. By using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design the investigators aim to explore a new inter-professional working structure. The working structure is based on the scientifically and clinically acknowledged integrated medicines management (IMM) model. The overall aim of the study is to explore the effect of the new working structure on the composite endpoint re-hospitalization + visit to an emergency department during 12 months after hospital discharge.

Conditions

• Health Services for the Aged
• Medication Therapy Management

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Interdisciplinary collaboration structure	A pharmacist is integrated in the team surrounding the patient, working by the Integrated Medicines Management (IMM) model. The IMM-model consist of medication reconciliation, medication review, standardized medication reports and counseling patients about their medication at discharge. In addition a phone meeting between the primary care physician and the study pharmacist is added after discharge.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-09-21
• Primary completion: 2020-12-20
• Completion: 2020-12-20
• First posted: 2016-06-28
• Last updated: 2021-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway