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A New Interdisciplinary Collaboration Structure to Improve Medication Safety in the Elderly (IMMENSE)

U

University of Tromso (UiT)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Medication Therapy Management
Health Services for the Aged

Treatments

Other: Interdisciplinary collaboration structure

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02816086
2016/41366

Details and patient eligibility

About

Suboptimal use of medications among geriatric patients is well-known problem and leads to medication errors, re-hospitalizations and death. By using a randomized controlled trial (RCT) design the investigators aim to explore a new inter-professional working structure. The working structure is based on the scientifically and clinically acknowledged integrated medicines management (IMM) model. The overall aim of the study is to explore the effect of the new working structure on the composite endpoint re-hospitalization + visit to an emergency department during 12 months after hospital discharge.

Enrollment

516 patients

Sex

All

Ages

70+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Aged ≥70 years
  • Admitted to the geriatric internal medicine ward in the University Hospital of North Norway (UNN) Tromsø or the general internal medicine ward in UNN Harstad.
  • Willing to provide written informed consent during hospital stay (patient or next of kin)

Exclusion criteria

  • Unable to communicate in Norwegian (patient or next of kind)
  • Terminally ill, e.g cancer in end-life stage
  • Control group patients where the physician request an assessment from a pharmacist
  • Time from admittance to the ward to inclusion is more than 72 hours
  • Occupying a bed in the study wards but under the care of physicians from a non-study ward.
  • Planned discharged on the inclusion day

Trial design

Primary purpose

Health Services Research

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

516 participants in 2 patient groups

Standard care
No Intervention group
Description:
The study participants receives standard care in the ward, this does not include a pharmacist.
Intervention
Experimental group
Description:
Interdisciplinary collaboration structure
Treatment:
Other: Interdisciplinary collaboration structure

Trial contacts and locations

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