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Intervention to Improve Prescribing in Elderly Patients

NCT02712268 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 450

Last updated 2017-01-04

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study tested the efficacy of an easy-to-use checklist aimed at supporting the therapeutic reasoning of physicians in order to reduce inappropriate prescribing and polypharmacy in elderly adults admitted to an internal medicine unit.

Conditions

  • Elderly Internal Medicine Patients

Interventions

OTHER

Checklist

Introduction of a 5-point checklist to be used by all physicians on the internal medicine wards to review and adapt the medications of the patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Stefano Bassetti, MD · University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-09-30
Primary Completion
2013-11-30
Completion
2013-12-31

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