Alleviating Geriatric Inpatients' Medication-related Iatrogenesis (AGING)

Rutgers The State University of New Jersey

Status: Completed

Conditions: Risk Reduction; Iatrogenic Disease

Treatments: Other: Risk score based intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05017948

Pro2021001087

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study will evaluate the MedWise Risk Score™ (MWRS™), a holistic approach to quantifying the risk of a patient's medication regimen. High risk patients will be identified at hospital discharge. Targeted interventions will be made to reduce their MWRS™ with a 30-day follow up. The hypothesis being tested is that a reduction in MWRS™ will lead to reduced 30-day readmission.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hospital admission for at least 48 hours
• Prescribed at least 5 medications at hospital discharge
• Baseline medication risk score of 20 or more

Exclusion criteria

• Reside greater than 25 miles from the index facility
• Discharge to hospice
• Discharge against medical advice
• Patient expiration during initial hospitalization

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Discharge medication regimen instructions will be provided upon discharge after being assessed using the MWRS, optimized, and assessed by the prescriber.

Treatment:

Other: Risk score based intervention

Standard of Care

No Intervention group

Description:

Discharge medication regimen instructions will be provided upon discharge after being assessed by the prescriber.