Feasibility Study of a Systematic Approach for Deprescribing of Statins and PPI's. (FeDeS+P)

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum

Status: Completed

Conditions: Polypharmacy

Treatments: Other: Deprescribing algorithm

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04204590

Z2018001

Details and patient eligibility

About

Deprescribing, the process of safely reducing or discontinuing unnecessary or harmful medication, has the potential to decrease polypharmacy and improve health outcomes. In this study a structured implicit algorithm, focusing on both extrinsic medication factors (eg change in disease) and intrinsic patient factors (eg. pill burden) will be used.

Enrollment: 75 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participant uses a statin and/or a proton pump inhibitor.
• Participant signs informed consent.
• Participant is a nursing home resident.

Exclusion criteria

• Participant is there for short term nursing home admission (<3 months)
• Participant is there for hospice admission.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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75 participants in 1 patient group

Participants

Other group

Description:

The aim of this study is to test the feasibility of this algorithm as an intervention to carry out deprescribing a targeted medication group, proton pump inhibitors (PPI's) and statins, among nursing home residents.

Treatment:

Other: Deprescribing algorithm