NCT04028583

Tool for Inappropriate Prescription Evaluation: The TaIPE Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 464 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A mono-center, randomized controlled trial will be conducted at the University Hospital of Lausanne. Hospitalized patients will be randomly assigned from the emergency department to two sub-units composing the acute care for elders (ACE) unit. In one subunit, potentially inappropriate prescriptions will be detected and treatment optimized according PIM-Check. In the other, STOPP/START criteria will be independently applied.

Conditions

• Inappropriate Prescribing

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	PIM-Check	In the PIM-Check group, a medication review will be conducted using PIM-Check within 72 hours of patient's admittance to the unit. The physician will decide whether to accept these recommendations or not and implement prescribing changes if agreed.
OTHER	STOPP/START	In the STOPP/START group, medication lists will be analyzed within 72 hours of patient's admittance and optimized according to STOPP/START criteria. The second physician will decide whether to accept these recommendations or not and implement prescribing changes if agreed.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-02-26
• Primary completion: 2019-04-30
• Completion: 2019-08-04
• First posted: 2019-07-22
• Last updated: 2019-07-23

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Switzerland