E-learning to Improve the Quality of Drug Prescribing in Hospitalized Elderly Patients

Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research

Status: Completed

Conditions: Drug Use

Treatments: Other: E-learning

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02339792

FARM87SA2B

Details and patient eligibility

About

This randomized controlled pragmatic study is aimed to set-up, assess and implement an integrated e-learning program of medical education in an hospital setting, focused on teaching and implementing CGA added to geriatric pharmacological notions (GPNs) to improve the quality of drug prescribing in elderly patients

Full description

The integrated e-learning program (intervention group) is focused on teaching and implementing knowledge on CGA and GPNs to help clinicians to improve the quality of drug prescribing in the elderly.The GPNs is focused on pharmaco-epidemiological issues of drug prescribing, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic changes during aging, topics in evaluating and managing polypharmacy, criteria to review the appropriateness of drug therapies and the clinical relevance of PDDI in the elderly. The control group receives only GPNs.

Enrollment: 697 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• people aged 75 years or older

Exclusion criteria

• people aged 75 years or older
• refusal of consent to participate
• a life expectancy of less than 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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697 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Other group

Description:

e-learning program of medical education, focused on teaching and implementing Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) added to geriatric pharmacological notions (GPNs)

Treatment:

Other: E-learning

Control

Other group

Description:

e-learning program of medical education, focused on teaching only geriatric pharmacological notions (GPNs)

Treatment:

Other: E-learning