Clinical and Economic Impact of an Electronic Medical Record Interfaced Decision Support System for Minimizing Severe Drug-Drug Interactions (DDI+)

Leumit Health Services

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthcare

Treatments: Other: DDI+

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01765595

LHS012013

Details and patient eligibility

About

Leumit Health Services, an health maintenance organization operating in Israel, will incorporate a web-based, decision support system for handling drug-drug interactions and drug information, termed DDI+. the investigators hypothesize that implementing such a system will reduce health-care expenditures (e.g., hospital admissions, referrals to ERs, Imaging procedures).

Enrollment: 715 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Number of chronic concomitant drugs ≥5

Exclusion criteria

• Patients diagnosed with HIV/AIDS, and/or viral hepatitis B or C.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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715 participants in 2 patient groups

DDI+

Experimental group

Description:

DDI+ Incorporated in routine ambulatory practice

Treatment:

Other: DDI+

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard care