NCT03840018

Effectiveness of a Postal Intervention to Improve the Use of PPI

Randomized Trial to Assess the Effectiveness of a Postal Intervention for Reducing the Chronic Use of Highe Doses of Proton Pump Inhibitors

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 401 (actual)
• Sponsor: Osakidetza · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

It was a randomised intervention study, with before-and-after outcome measures and a control group, in patients who had an active long-term prescription for PPIs at high doses for at least 6 months.

Detailed description

The intervention consisted of sending patients an informative letter by post, in which their doctor invited them to seek an appointment for a medication review. Control group patients did not receive such a letter, and they were treated as usual (their doctors received a list of identifiers of patients on high doses). The main outcome variable was the number of active prescriptions of each PPI dose (high dose/standard dose/treatment cessation) at 6 months after the intervention.

Conditions

• Drug Overdose

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Letter by post to patients	Patients received an informative letter by post, in which their doctor invited them to seek an appointment for a medication review

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-05-10
• Primary completion: 2017-12-10
• Completion: 2018-04-18
• First posted: 2019-02-15
• Last updated: 2019-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain