NCT03369652

Telephone Contact Between Hospital and General Practitioner About Medication Review for Older Patients

Can Telephone Contact After Discharge Between Geriatrician, Clinical Pharmacist and General Practitioner About Medication Review in Hospital Improve the Medication in Older Patients? A Feasibility Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 232 (actual)
• Sponsor: Odense University Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

In this trial, the feasibility of cooperation between clinical pharmacists and physicians by conducting a telephone follow-up conversation between the hospital geriatrician, the general practitioner and the clinical pharmacist is evaluated. During hospital stay the clinical pharmacist and the geriatrician will review older patients' medication and discuss the future treatment with the general practitioner after discharge by telephone or medico-technology. The first part of the feasibility study will be a qualitative baseline measure of characteristics of the participants and work flow. The second part will be a pilot randomized controlled study where participants will be allocated to either usual care or medication review and follow up contact

Conditions

• Older Patients
• Medication Review
• Cross-sectional Communication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Medication review	Conducted by the pharmacist and discussed with hospital physician

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-11-24
• Primary completion: 2018-11-01
• Completion: 2018-11-30
• First posted: 2017-12-12
• Last updated: 2019-03-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Denmark