NCT03688542

Opportunities and Limits to Deprescribing in Nursing Homes:Quality Circle Deprescribing Module

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Anne Niquille · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Older people residing in nursing homes (NH) are frequently polymedicated and often prescribed potentially inappropriate medications. Deprescribing has been proposed as a way to reduce the number of drugs they receive and their exposure to harmful treatments. The objectives of this study are 1) To evaluate the effect of a deprescribing-specific interdisciplinary quality circle module on the use of potentially inappropriate medication in nursing-home residents. 2) To determine the effective strategies to reach and implement deprescribing consensus resulting of said quality circle module.

Conditions

• Polypharmacy
• Inappropriate Prescribing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Quality Circle Deprescribing Module	The Quality Circle Deprescribing Module consist of a discussion bringing together nurses, physicians and responsible pharmacist to create a local deprescribing consensus for frequently used drug classes, as well as implementation strategies for the consensus..

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-09-25
• Primary completion: 2020-07-01
• Completion: 2020-07-01
• First posted: 2018-09-28
• Last updated: 2021-04-21
• Results posted: 2021-04-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland