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Study for Early Detection of Drug Interactions in Older Hospitalized Patients Using on Line Software

NCT00850330 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 3000

Last updated 2009-08-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

A drug interaction (DI) is the mutual action of two drugs in a way that they can increase their action, even to a toxic level, or reduce it to its minimum.

People elder than 65 years old have theirs biological ability to metabolized and eliminate drugs impaired. Even more, they tend to suffer from many diseases, are treated for many physicians, and receive many drugs for those conditions. If hospitalized older people are prone to receive a greater number of drugs. This scenario is the worst to suffer from adverse drug events and DI, which in turn compromise more the health and even life of hospitalized older people.

Many computerized strategies have been developed to prevent those problems. In this trial the investigators use on line software to early detect DI that could endanger health or life of hospitalized older patients.

Conditions

  • Drug Interactions

Interventions

OTHER

on line software to detect DI early on

Patients hospital records will be reviewed on the day of admission to assess all their indication using on line software to early detect drug interactions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gabriel S Iraci, MD, Prof · Catedra de Farmacología, Hospital Nacional de Clínicas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2010-12-31
Completion
2010-12-31

Countries

  • Argentina

Study Locations

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