Comprehensive Management of Drug Prescriptions Throughout the Elderly Person's Hospital Care (OPTISORT)

Lille Catholic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medication Reconciliation; Patient Readmission; Elderly

Treatments: Other: global care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03666793

RC-P0069

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the impact of optimizing drug prescriptions on re-admissions of elderly patients within 30 days after hospital discharge. It compares a group of patients receiving comprehensive care (medication reconciliation at hospital entry, multidisciplinary medication review, and medication reconciliation at discharge), versus another group that does not benefit from the program.

Enrollment: 109 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients hospitalized in the department of short geriatric stay

Exclusion criteria

• Patients already included in the study, and readmitted in the same service.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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109 participants in 2 patient groups

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Standard healthcare procedures

experimental: Reconciliation group

Experimental group

Description:

medical reconciliation at admission, multidisciplinary medication review, medical reconciliation at discharge of the hospital

Treatment:

Other: global care