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An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions for Elderly Patients in General Practice

NCT00281450 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 85836

Last updated 2010-04-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients \> 70 years.

Conditions

  • Aged
  • Family Practice

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Educational intervention

We developed a set of explicit criteria for pharmacological inappropriateness for Norwegian GPs' prescribing to elderly patients. The main purpose of the criteria was to serve as quality indicators during an educational intervention: the Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study, aimed at improving GPs' prescribing for elderly patients.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Oslo

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Sture Rognstad, MD · University of Oslo

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-01-31
Primary Completion
2007-03-31
Completion
2007-03-31

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