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- Klinische Studie NCT00738816
Effect of Systematic Medication Review in Elderly Patients Admitted to an Orthopedic Department
The Effect of Systematic Medication Review in Elderly Patients Admitted to an Orthopedic Department.
Elderly patients have a higher risk of experiencing adverse drug events due to an age related increase in morbidity and medication use. Inappropriate or wrong medication use among elderly patients acutely admitted to hospitals is assumed to result in earlier contact to general practitioner, emergency departments and re-admissions if not corrected during hospital admission. It is therefore our hypothesis that a systematic medication review conducted by pharmacists and physicians specialized in pharmacology will increase time to first unscheduled physician contact (general practitioner, emergency departments, ambulatory care and re-admissions) after discharge from hospital from an average of 21days to 25 days. Further, the following secondary outcome parameters will be measured at discharge and within 3-month follow-up:
- length of in-hospital stay
- number of contacts to general practitioner 30 days after discharge, that resulted in medication changes
- number of re-admissions at 3-month
- number of death at 3-month
- number of contact to primary health care at 3-month
- patients self-experienced quality of health(EQ-5D) 3-month
Studienübersicht
Status
Bedingungen
Intervention / Behandlung
Studientyp
Einschreibung (Tatsächlich)
Phase
- Unzutreffend
Kontakte und Standorte
Studienorte
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Central Denmark Region
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Randers, Central Denmark Region, Dänemark, 8900
- Regional Hospital, Randers
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Teilnahmekriterien
Zulassungskriterien
Studienberechtigtes Alter
Akzeptiert gesunde Freiwillige
Studienberechtigte Geschlechter
Beschreibung
Inclusion Criteria:
- age 65 years or older
- expected admission time of more than 24 hours
- acute admission
Exclusion Criteria:
- Psychotic patients
- Moribund patients
- Suicidal patients
Studienplan
Wie ist die Studie aufgebaut?
Designdetails
- Hauptzweck: Verhütung
- Zuteilung: Zufällig
- Interventionsmodell: Parallele Zuordnung
- Maskierung: Single
Waffen und Interventionen
Teilnehmergruppe / Arm |
Intervention / Behandlung |
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Sonstiges: Intervention
Systematic medication review
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Within 24 hours of admission a pharmacist retrieve medication histories from patients included in the intervention group.
Medication histories will be obtained from - medical records, medication charts, patients electronical medication profile, interview with patients and if necessary contact to the patients general practitioner.
The obtained medication history will be discussed with a physician specialized in pharmacology and an advisory note with suggested changes to the patients medication is added to the medical record.
The orthopedic physicians are not obliged to follow the suggested changes
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Was misst die Studie?
Primäre Ergebnismessungen
Ergebnis Maßnahme |
Zeitfenster |
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Time to first unscheduled physician contact(general practitioner,emergency department, ambulatory care or re-admission to hospital) after discharge from the Orthopaedic Department
Zeitfenster: January 2010
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January 2010
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Sekundäre Ergebnismessungen
Ergebnis Maßnahme |
Zeitfenster |
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Admission time
Zeitfenster: October 2009
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October 2009
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Mitarbeiter und Ermittler
Sponsor
Ermittler
- Hauptermittler: Nielsen Lars Peter, Assoc. Prof., Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark
Publikationen und hilfreiche Links
Allgemeine Veröffentlichungen
- Vira T, Colquhoun M, Etchells E. Reconcilable differences: correcting medication errors at hospital admission and discharge. Qual Saf Health Care. 2006 Apr;15(2):122-6. doi: 10.1136/qshc.2005.015347.
- Holland R, Desborough J, Goodyer L, Hall S, Wright D, Loke YK. Does pharmacist-led medication review help to reduce hospital admissions and deaths in older people? A systematic review and meta-analysis. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2008 Mar;65(3):303-16. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2125.2007.03071.x. Epub 2007 Dec 17.
- Lau HS, Florax C, Porsius AJ, De Boer A. The completeness of medication histories in hospital medical records of patients admitted to general internal medicine wards. Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2000 Jun;49(6):597-603. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2125.2000.00204.x.
- Glintborg B, Andersen SE, Dalhoff K. Drug-drug interactions among recently hospitalised patients--frequent but mostly clinically insignificant. Eur J Clin Pharmacol. 2005 Oct;61(9):675-81. doi: 10.1007/s00228-005-0978-6. Epub 2005 Oct 19.
- Page RL 2nd, Ruscin JM. The risk of adverse drug events and hospital-related morbidity and mortality among older adults with potentially inappropriate medication use. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2006 Dec;4(4):297-305. doi: 10.1016/j.amjopharm.2006.12.008.
Studienaufzeichnungsdaten
Haupttermine studieren
Studienbeginn
Primärer Abschluss (Tatsächlich)
Studienabschluss (Tatsächlich)
Studienanmeldedaten
Zuerst eingereicht
Zuerst eingereicht, das die QC-Kriterien erfüllt hat
Zuerst gepostet (Schätzen)
Studienaufzeichnungsaktualisierungen
Letztes Update gepostet (Schätzen)
Letztes eingereichtes Update, das die QC-Kriterien erfüllt
Zuletzt verifiziert
Mehr Informationen
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Schlüsselwörter
Andere Studien-ID-Nummern
- Klinfarm
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