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| Region Stockholm | OTHER_GOV |
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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.
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.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Educational intervention | Experimental | 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. |
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| Delayed educational intervention | No Intervention | Primary health care centers in the delayed intervention group will receive the same intervention as described above with 9 months delay. |
| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Educational intervention | Other | 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. |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Composite outcome: Unplanned hospitalisation or emergency department visit | 9 months |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Unplanned hospitalisation | 9 months | |
| Emergency department visit | 9 months | |
| Length of hospital stay |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Jan Hasselström, MD, PhD | Centre for Family Medicine, Dept of Neurobiology, Care sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Centre for Family Medicine, Dept of Neurobiology, Care sciences and Society, Karolinska Institutet | Huddinge | 14183 | Sweden |
| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 12061133 | Background | Beijer HJ, de Blaey CJ. Hospitalisations caused by adverse drug reactions (ADR): a meta-analysis of observational studies. Pharm World Sci. 2002 Apr;24(2):46-54. doi: 10.1023/a:1015570104121. | |
| 17630041 | Background | Spinewine A, Schmader KE, Barber N, Hughes C, Lapane KL, Swine C, Hanlon JT. Appropriate prescribing in elderly people: how well can it be measured and optimised? Lancet. 2007 Jul 14;370(9582):173-184. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(07)61091-5. |
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| ID | Term |
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| D064420 | Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions |
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| D064419 | Chemically-Induced Disorders |
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| D018479 | Early Intervention, Educational |
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| D002662 | Child Health Services |
| D003153 | Community Health Services |
| D006296 | Health Services |
| D005159 | Health Care Facilities Workforce and Services |
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| 9 months |
| All cause mortality | 9 months |
| Number of drug utilization reviews | 9 months |
| Number of patients with polypharmacy | polypharmacy: 5-9 drugs/patient excessive polypharmacy: 10 and more drugs/patient | 9 months |
| Inappropriate drug use according to national guidelines | see link | 9 months |
| Number of patients with contraindicated drugs regarding renal function | 9 months |
| Number of drugs with inappropriate drug dose regarding renal function | 9 months |
| Number of drug interactions | 9 months |
| 9475445 | Background | Stewart S, Pearson S, Luke CG, Horowitz JD. Effects of home-based intervention on unplanned readmissions and out-of-hospital deaths. J Am Geriatr Soc. 1998 Feb;46(2):174-80. doi: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb02535.x. |
| D011314 | Preventive Health Services |