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Reducing Post-discharge Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults (MedSafer)
Reducing Post-discharge Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults: a Multi-centre Electronic Deprescribing Intervention
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Deprescribing during hospitalization can be achieved through the concerted effort of expert clinicians. A single-centre randomized controlled trial (400 patients) demonstrated that by having a dedicated geriatrician apply the STOPP/START criteria [screening tool of older people's prescriptions (STOPP) and screening tool to alert to right treatment (START)] to screen for PIM use on admission could improve prescribing appropriateness by providing recommendations for medication management; these changes were shown to persist for at least six months post discharge. Recommendations were made in 58% of intervention patients, and these were accepted in greater than 90% of cases. At discharge the proportion of patients taking "unnecessary" therapy was 20% in the control group and 5.2% in the intervention arm. This study was underpowered to show meaningful differences in ADEs and was entirely dependent on a dedicated expert physician whose full time job was to provide this service; despite this, medications were discontinued in nearly 1 in 5 patients with a sustained post-discharge effect.
This catalyst program will build on the Canadian Frailty Network-funded Catalyst Research Program Grant (MEdication RAtionalization or MERA) by Co-Investigator James Downar. MERA identifies medication for deprescribing by combining STOPP/START, the Beers criteria, and Choosing Wisely Canada recommendations. A multidisciplinary case team then guides elderly patients and their caregivers through deprescription during their hospitalization. Both the Gallagher and MERA approaches are intensive in terms of human resources and are challenging to generalize, implement and sustain nationwide. Furthermore, the current lack of firm evidence on the risks and benefits of systemic deprescribing has limited the implementation of these concepts into routine medical practice. A technological solution that facilitates deprescribing and with proven effectiveness and safety would be a tremendous step forward for the deprescribing movement.
Research Objectives: The investigators will adapt and implement an electronic tool called MedSafer to identify PIMs within 72 hours of hospitalization and prioritize medications for deprescription. The tool will use three key criteria for deprescription: the potential for a drug to improve symptoms, the potential to reduce the risk of future illness, and the likelihood of causing harm. The recommendations from MedSafer will cue the treating team to consider deprescribing PIMs after taking into consideration their knowledge of the individual patient comorbidities, along with an understanding of patient values and goals of care.
The primary goal of this pilot study is to demonstrate that MedSafer can facilitate deprescription (beyond usual care) in a diverse population of elderly patients. This pilot will serve as the proof of concept for a larger multicenter RCT looking at the impact of this process on adverse drug events. This pilot will facilitate: 1) estimates of the frequency of PIMs; 2) adverse drug event rates; 3) rates of recruitment, refusal and loss to follow up; 4) refinement of MedSafer based on real world user feedback; and 6) refinement of the adverse drug event endpoint adjudication and health-related quality of life interview process. The study will be conducted at the Ottawa Hospital, the Toronto General Hospital and two hospitals at the McGill University Health Centre, in Montreal (Royal Victoria and Montreal General Hospitals).
Primary objective: The primary outcome is the proportion of patients for whom 1 or more PIMs are stopped at discharge. We hypothesize that MedSafer will facilitate deprescription of PIMs compared to usual practice.
Secondary objectives: To determine if this intervention leads to demonstrable improvements in: a) Proportion of PIMs at 30-days post hospital discharge; b) adverse drug events within 30 days of hospital discharge; c) falls in hospital; d) length of stay; e) in-hospital mortality; f) the overall number of any medications the average patient receives at discharge and 30 days post; g) post-discharge self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL); h) emergency department visits and readmissions within 30 days; i) 30-day all cause mortality.
This intervention is a novel electronic tool that combines the newly refined version of the STOPP/START criteria, the 2015 Beers criteria, and applicable recommendations from Choosing Wisely Canada to guide and facilitate deprescribing. To the investigator's knowledge, this is the first electronic intervention to be implemented among heterogeneous at-risk, frail elderly, hospitalized patients. This trial will test a tool that could lead to a transformative change in medication appropriateness.
2.2 Methodological Approach Study design: The study design is a before-after intervention study. All hospitals will participate in six weeks of baseline measurement followed by six weeks of intervention. The primary outcome is the proportion of patients who have 1 or more PIM discontinued at discharge.
Study Setting: This study will take place on the clinical teaching units where patients are cared for by teams composed of medical students, junior and senior residents in internal medicine and other specialties, and attending physicians. The CTUs where this study will take place admits complex elderly patients with multiple comorbidities where the majority are non-surgical frail elderly and are most likely to benefit from a medication stewardship intervention. Most medical trainees will spend weeks to months on these units each year, yielding high exposure to the intervention. The investigators have shown that medication stewardship projects can be successful on the CTU and that changes taking place on the CTU can continue after discharge.
Planned trial interventions: Within 72 hours of admission (excluding weekends and holidays) to both control and intervention units, each patient's documented medical history and medication list will be manually extracted by a trained research assistant.
Intervention: Participants in the intervention phase will be electronically screened using MedSafer which will cross-reference this information to automatically identify and prioritize "deprescribing opportunities" for further expert evaluation by the CTU team.
In this intervention, PIMs that are electronically identified will be communicated to the treating medical team through MedSafer generated evidence-based recommendations including how to safely deprescribe or taper medications as necessary. In the case of multiple recommendations, they will be limited and prioritized in order to avoid overwhelming the treating team. The doctors caring for the hospitalized patient will receive the information. At that point, based on expert medical judgement, in collaboration with the patient/caregiver and other relevant physicians (i.e. consultants and the community physician), a decision will be made to deprescribe if appropriate.
Control: all participants will receive medication reconciliation by the unit pharmacist, a review of medical history and medication use, and identical follow up, but no prioritized list will be generated for the treating team to systematically trigger deprescribing.
The results of this catalyst study will ideally establish the safety and efficacy of MedSafer to electronically facilitate the inpatient application of criteria based on STOPP/START, Beers and Choosing Wisely recommendations to identity and prioritize PIMs for deprescribing. Based on a positive outcome of this study, the investigators would plan to implement the tool in a larger study at multiple hospitals across Canada to determine its effectiveness at reducing ADEs among a similar frail and elderly population.
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Ubicaciones de estudio
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Quebec
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Montreal, Quebec, Canadá, H4A3J1
- McGill University Health Centre (Royal Victoria Hospital and Montreal General Hospital)
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Descripción
Inclusion Criteria:
Participants will represent a consecutive series of persons.
Eligible participants include those who are:
- aged 65 years or older;
- taking 5 or more medications; and
- admitted to the inpatient medical ward at any of the study sites.
- Patients who are cognitively impaired or otherwise unable to provide consent will still be included as this sub-population of patients may be at greatest risk of ADEs because of their communication problems. Tri-council ethics guidelines (Canada) deem that this sub-population should not be excluded from interventions that potentially provide direct benefit to the participant due to the inability to provide informed consent (Article 4.5, Tri-Council Policy Statement 2008). For these patients, the family/proxy will authorize study participation pending the return of patient capacity to consent.
Patients who are ultimately discharged from non-study units during their hospitalization will be excluded unless that unit is a transitional care, rehabilitation, or post-acute care unit used to bridge the gap between acute medical hospitalization and community services.
Exclusion Criteria:
- patients expected to be transferred to another acute care hospital, a non-medical unit, or a palliative care unit;
- patients who normally live outside of the province of hospitalization;
- patients not enrolled in (or eligible for) the provincial drug plans;
- patients previously enrolled in the study;
- patients or proxy not able to speak English or French;
- no means of contacting patient or proxy post-discharge;
- patients expected to die within 30 days and whose level of care has been declared to be palliative will be maintained in the study but will be excluded from select secondary outcomes.
Plan de estudios
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Detalles de diseño
- Propósito principal: Prevención
- Asignación: No aleatorizado
- Modelo Intervencionista: Asignación paralela
- Enmascaramiento: Doble
Armas e Intervenciones
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Comparador activo: McGill University Health Centre
This arm is defined by the geographic cluster of all eligible participants presenting to the McGill University Health Centre (Montreal, Quebec, Canada) Montreal General Hospital or Royal Victoria Hospital during the study period.
The arm will undergo a control and intervention (MedSafer) period.
Participants will be enrolled in either the control or intervention period.
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MedSafer is an electronic tool for the treating team (physician and pharmacists) to facilitate medication deprescription.
MedSafer can identify potentially inappropriate medication use and communicate the risk of adverse drug events to the treating team.
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Comparador activo: University Health Network, Toronto
This arm is defined by the geographic cluster of all eligible participants presenting to the University Health Network (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) at the Toronto General Hospital or Toronto Western Hospital.
The arm will undergo a control and intervention (MedSafer) period.
Participants will be enrolled in either the control or intervention period.
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MedSafer is an electronic tool for the treating team (physician and pharmacists) to facilitate medication deprescription.
MedSafer can identify potentially inappropriate medication use and communicate the risk of adverse drug events to the treating team.
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Comparador activo: University of Ottawa, Ottawa
This arm is defined by the geographic cluster of all eligible participants presenting to the Ottawa Hospital (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada).
The arm will undergo a control and intervention (MedSafer) period.
Participants will be enrolled in either the control or intervention period.
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MedSafer is an electronic tool for the treating team (physician and pharmacists) to facilitate medication deprescription.
MedSafer can identify potentially inappropriate medication use and communicate the risk of adverse drug events to the treating team.
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¿Qué mide el estudio?
Medidas de resultado primarias
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Proportion of Patients with cessation of Potentially Inappropriate Medications (PIMs)
Periodo de tiempo: Proportion will be evaluated on the day of the patient's discharge from the hospital
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The primary outcome is the proportion of patients with 1 or more PIM discontinued at discharge
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Proportion will be evaluated on the day of the patient's discharge from the hospital
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Medidas de resultado secundarias
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The number of medications prescribed at discharge and 30 days post
Periodo de tiempo: Within 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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The absolute number of medications prescribed at discharge and at 30 days post hospital discharge as compared to at admission
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Within 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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Adverse drug event
Periodo de tiempo: Within 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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An ADE is defined as an injury resulting from medical intervention related to a drug.
ADEs will be assessed by trained clinician reviewers using the Leap-Bates method
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Within 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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Adverse event
Periodo de tiempo: Within 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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An adverse event is defined as an unplanned utilization of healthcare services, a death, and/or a new or worsening symptom concerning to the patient for which they intend to seek medical care
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Within 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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Health related quality of life
Periodo de tiempo: At 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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This will be assessed using the EQ-5D-5L Health Questionnaire.
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At 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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Length of stay (days)
Periodo de tiempo: Duration of patient's hospital stay, from admission to discharge up to a maximum of 90 days
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Determination of hospital length of stay from enrollment into the study to discharge.
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Duration of patient's hospital stay, from admission to discharge up to a maximum of 90 days
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Return to the emergency department
Periodo de tiempo: At 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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Determination of whether participant returned to the emergency department after hospital discharge within 30 days of initial discharge.
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At 30 days after the patient was discharged from the hospital
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In-hospital mortality
Periodo de tiempo: Throughout the index admission from time patient admitted to time patient discharged up to a maximum of 90 days
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In-hospital mortality during the index hospital admission.
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Throughout the index admission from time patient admitted to time patient discharged up to a maximum of 90 days
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In hospital falls
Periodo de tiempo: During patient's index admission, evaluated from admission to discharge, up to a maximum of 90 days
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Falls that are recorded while the patient is hospitalized
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During patient's index admission, evaluated from admission to discharge, up to a maximum of 90 days
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30-day all cause mortality
Periodo de tiempo: At 30 days post hospital discharge
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Patients who die within 30 days of hospital discharge
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At 30 days post hospital discharge
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Proportion of potentially inappropriate medications at 30-days post discharge
Periodo de tiempo: At 30 days post discharge
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Proportion of PIMs at 30-days post discharge as compared to proportion of PIMs at admission and at discharge
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At 30 days post discharge
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Colaboradores e Investigadores
Patrocinador
Investigadores
- Investigador principal: Todd C Lee, MD MPH, McGill University Health Centre/Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre
Publicaciones y enlaces útiles
Publicaciones Generales
- Gallagher PF, O'Connor MN, O'Mahony D. Prevention of potentially inappropriate prescribing for elderly patients: a randomized controlled trial using STOPP/START criteria. Clin Pharmacol Ther. 2011 Jun;89(6):845-54. doi: 10.1038/clpt.2011.44. Epub 2011 Apr 20.
- Lee TC, Frenette C, Jayaraman D, Green L, Pilote L. Antibiotic self-stewardship: trainee-led structured antibiotic time-outs to improve antimicrobial use. Ann Intern Med. 2014 Nov 18;161(10 Suppl):S53-8. doi: 10.7326/M13-3016.
- McDonald EG, Jones J, Green L, Jayaraman D, Lee TC. Reduction of inappropriate exit prescriptions for proton pump inhibitors: A before-after study using education paired with a web-based quality-improvement tool. J Hosp Med. 2015 May;10(5):281-6. doi: 10.1002/jhm.2330. Epub 2015 Feb 24.
- Interagency_Advisory_Panel_on_Research_Ethics. Tri-Council Policy Statement: Ethical Conduct for Research Involving Humans. Ottawa: Interagency Secretariat on Research Ethics; 2008.
- McDonald EG, Wu PE, Rashidi B, Forster AJ, Huang A, Pilote L, Papillon-Ferland L, Bonnici A, Tamblyn R, Whitty R, Porter S, Battu K, Downar J, Lee TC. The MedSafer Study: A Controlled Trial of an Electronic Decision Support Tool for Deprescribing in Acute Care. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2019 Sep;67(9):1843-1850. doi: 10.1111/jgs.16040. Epub 2019 Jun 27.
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Otros números de identificación del estudio
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