NCT05630144

Deprescribing for Older Adults After Hospital Discharge in Home Health Care

Deprescribing for Older Adults After Hospital Discharge in Home Health Care - A Pilot Feasibility Study of the HomeMed Deprescribing Intervention

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 5 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Rochester · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to examine the feasibility of providing a medication optimization program to improve patient health outcomes during the transition from hospital to home. This is because the period after hospital discharge is critical to long-term recovery, overall quality of life, and prevention of future hospitalizations.

Conditions

• Polypharmacy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	HomeMed	The HomeMed intervention is a multidisciplinary deprescribing intervention including home visits and team-based telehealth communication (optional). The components included in the HomeMed intervention include home medication review, medication education and provision of tools to assist the patients with medication administration, assessment of deprescribing targets by a trained geriatric clinical pharmacist, communication with the patient's treating primary care provider about deprescribing recommendation, deprescribing implementation (optional), and deprescribing monitoring (optional). Depending on the patient's treating primary care provider's decision on deprescribing and monitoring, the number of home visits ranges from a minimum of three to more with the entire duration of the intervention ranging from approximately 1 to 3 months.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-03-29
• Primary completion: 2025-05-30
• Completion: 2025-05-30
• First posted: 2022-11-29
• Last updated: 2025-07-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States