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Testing the SNOWDROP Intervention: Using a Clinical Decision Support System and Patient Portal for Falls Prevention Among Older Patients in Primary Care

NCT05611008 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 85

Last updated 2024-01-10

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Summary

Falls are a leading cause of injuries among older patients. Medication use is a major risk factor for falls. Because we lack tools to assess individualized risks, general practitioners (GPs) struggle with fall-related medication management for older patients. Furthermore, these older patients are often not properly equipped to engage in the joint management of their medication. A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) for GPs and a patient portal for older patients may stimulate shared decision making between GPs and older patients when discussing the medication-related fall risk. The CDSS provides the GP with advice on how to alter medication in such a way that the fall risk decreases, and the patient portal helps the older patient to prepare for a consultation and to engage in the joint management of their medication.

Conditions

  • Fall
  • Fall Injury
  • Fall Patients
  • Accidental Fall
  • Deprescribing

Interventions

DEVICE

CDSS

A Clinical Decision Support System (CDSS) that calculates older patients' personalized fall risk and provides the GP with advice on how to adjust the patient's medication in order to lower the fall risk.

DEVICE

Patient Portal

A patient portal that provides general information on falls and fall risk to the older patients and helps the patient to prepare for the consultation by filling out a Question Prompt List (QPL). The QPL is a list of possibly relevant questions and topics from which the patient can select those that are important to him/her. These will already be sent to the GP before the consultation takes place.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Amsterdam

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Julia C.M. van Weert · Amsterdam School for Communication Research (ASCoR), University of Amsterdam

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-11-21
Primary Completion
2023-10-30
Completion
2023-10-30

Countries

  • Netherlands

Study Locations

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