NCT04800900

Effectiveness of Pharmaceutical Interventions in Hospitalized Patients

Effectiveness of Pharmaceutical Interventions in the Omission of Prescription and Desprescription of Medications in Hospitalized Patients

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 332 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Bahia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The presence of multimorbidities is very common among the elderly, which become major consumers of medicines. The process of prescribing medicines for the elderly should be done with caution, as the use of some medications may present more risks than benefits in this range age. Potentially inappropriate prescribing for the elderly has become a global concern for the promotion of an adequate pharmacotherapy, it becomes essential to be aware of the effectiveness and safety of medicines and the knowledge of which drugs whose risks of serious adverse reactions outweigh the benefit of your referral. In this sense, the present study has aim to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical interventions in frequency of omission of drugs with proven efficacy for cardiovascular diseases and promotion of treatment prescription inappropriate and polypharmacy. A prospective quasi experimental before and after study will be carried out in elderly patients diagnosed with cardiovascular disease admitted to the Ana Nery hospital, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. A convenience sample will be collected, the data will be released and revised in a database built in the SPSS software and analyzed in the program statistic R and SPSS. At the end of the study, it is expected a decrease in the frequency of omission of medications and promotion of prescription drugs inappropriate.

Conditions

• Safety Issues

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pharmaceutical intervention	A pharmacist will analyse patient's prescription, identify if there is prescribing omission and inappropriated drug prescribed and when necessary will require to doctors deprescribe or introduce or remove prescribed drugs

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-04
• Primary completion: 2022-01-30
• Completion: 2022-01-30
• First posted: 2021-03-16
• Last updated: 2022-04-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil