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Educational Intervention to Reduce Drug-related Hospitalizations in Elderly Primary Health Care Patients

18. oktober 2013 opdateret af: Lars Agreus, Karolinska Institutet

Educational Intervention to Reduce Drug-related Hospitalizations and Visits in Emergency Departments in Elderly Primary Health Care Patients - a Cluster-randomized Controlled Trial

The purpose of this study is to determine whether an educational intervention given towards health care providers working in primary health care centers can reduce inappropriate prescribing in the elderly patient and thus reduce number and length of drug-related hospitalizations as well as number of emergency department visits in this patient group.

Studieoversigt

Status

Afsluttet

Betingelser

Intervention / Behandling

Detaljeret beskrivelse

Inappropriate medication in the elderly patient leads to substantial morbidity, possibly causing up to 20% of hospitalizations in this patient group (1). To improve prescribing and thus reduce undesired drug effects is a great challenge for doctors and nurses in primary health care.

Performance of drug utilization reviews is recommended in order to reduce the negative impact of inappropriate prescribing in the elderly. However, scientific evidence on their efficacy is lacking, especially regarding patient-related health outcomes (2,3). Most studies are carried out in inpatient care, making it difficult to draw conclusions regarding primary health care (2). Moreover, studies in this scientific field diverge regarding the content and structure of drug utilization reviews, which implies that comparison between studies becomes challenging, if not impossible.

This trial aims at educating health care providers in how to perform drug utilization reviews, and to help them implement theory into practice.

Undersøgelsestype

Interventionel

Tilmelding (Faktiske)

69

Fase

  • Ikke anvendelig

Kontakter og lokationer

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Studiesteder

  • Sverige
      • Huddinge, Sverige, 14183
        • Centre for Family Medicine, Dept of Neurobiology, Care sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet

Deltagelseskriterier

Forskere leder efter personer, der passer til en bestemt beskrivelse, kaldet berettigelseskriterier. Nogle eksempler på disse kriterier er en persons generelle helbredstilstand eller tidligere behandlinger.

Berettigelseskriterier

Aldre berettiget til at studere

65 år og ældre (Ældre voksen)

Tager imod sunde frivillige

Ingen

Køn, der er berettiget til at studere

Alle

Beskrivelse

Inclusion Criteria:

  • primary health care center in Stockholm County
  • authorized by Stockholm County Council since at least 3 years
  • at least 5% of patients attributed to primary health care center are 65 years and older
  • primary health care center takes care of at least 10 home care patients

Exclusion Criteria:

  • less than 3000 patients listed in primary health care center
  • primary health care centers where researchers carrying out the present study work

Studieplan

Dette afsnit indeholder detaljer om studieplanen, herunder hvordan undersøgelsen er designet, og hvad undersøgelsen måler.

Hvordan er undersøgelsen tilrettelagt?

Design detaljer

  • Primært formål: Forebyggelse
  • Tildeling: Randomiseret
  • Interventionel model: Parallel tildeling
  • Maskning: Enkelt

Våben og indgreb

Deltagergruppe / Arm
Intervention / Behandling
Eksperimentel: Educational intervention
Primary health care centers (PHCC) in the intervention group will be visited twice by a pharmacist within a period of three months. At the first visit, an educational intervention will focus on two properties: on the one hand, feed-back of actual patient data of the PHCC illustrating the primary-health-care-specific characteristics of inappropriate prescribing in the elderly patient will be given. Education of relevant subjects will be given in relation to detected problems. On the other hand, a clinical routine regarding the performance of drug utilization reviews will be developed in cooperation with the health care providers. At the second visit 3 months later, the developed concept will be critically reviewed and eventually developed further.
Andet: Educational intervention
Primary health care centers (PHCC) in the intervention group will be visited twice by a pharmacist within a period of three months. At the first visit, an educational intervention will focus on two properties: on the one hand, feed-back of actual patient data of the PHCC illustrating the primary-health-care-specific characteristics of inappropriate prescribing in the elderly patient will be given. Education of relevant subjects will be given in relation to detected problems. On the other hand, a clinical routine regarding the performance of drug utilization reviews will be developed in cooperation with the health care providers. At the second visit 3 months later, the developed concept will be critically reviewed and eventually developed further.
Ingen indgriben: Delayed educational intervention
Primary health care centers in the delayed intervention group will receive the same intervention as described above with 9 months delay.

Hvad måler undersøgelsen?

Primære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Tidsramme
Composite outcome: Unplanned hospitalisation or emergency department visit
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months

Sekundære resultatmål

Resultatmål
Foranstaltningsbeskrivelse
Tidsramme
Alle forårsager dødelighed
Tidsramme: 9 måneder
9 måneder
Unplanned hospitalisation
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months
Emergency department visit
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months
Length of hospital stay
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months
Number of drug utilization reviews
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months
Number of patients with polypharmacy
Tidsramme: 9 months
polypharmacy: 5-9 drugs/patient excessive polypharmacy: 10 and more drugs/patient
9 months
Inappropriate drug use according to national guidelines
Tidsramme: 9 months
see link
9 months
Number of patients with contraindicated drugs regarding renal function
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months
Number of drugs with inappropriate drug dose regarding renal function
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months
Number of drug interactions
Tidsramme: 9 months
9 months

Samarbejdspartnere og efterforskere

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Sponsor

Karolinska Institutet

Samarbejdspartnere

Region Stockholm

Efterforskere

  • Ledende efterforsker: Jan Hasselström, MD, PhD, Centre for Family Medicine, Dept of Neurobiology, Care sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet

Publikationer og nyttige links

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Generelle publikationer

Datoer for undersøgelser

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Studer store datoer

Studiestart

1. november 2012

Primær færdiggørelse (Faktiske)

1. september 2013

Studieafslutning (Faktiske)

1. september 2013

Datoer for studieregistrering

Først indsendt

19. november 2012

Først indsendt, der opfyldte QC-kriterier

19. november 2012

Først opslået (Skøn)

22. november 2012

Opdateringer af undersøgelsesjournaler

Sidste opdatering sendt (Skøn)

21. oktober 2013

Sidste opdatering indsendt, der opfyldte kvalitetskontrolkriterier

18. oktober 2013

Sidst verificeret

1. oktober 2013

Mere information

Begreber relateret til denne undersøgelse

Nøgleord

Yderligere relevante MeSH-vilkår

Andre undersøgelses-id-numre

  • 2012 1266-31

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