From Administration of Oral Medicines by Nurses to Controlled Self-administration: Impact on Safety of Administration During Hospitalisation (AUTOGESTMED)

Centre Hospitalier de Valenciennes

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Self Administration

Treatments: Behavioral: Self-administration medicines

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT06639113

2023-02-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medication administration practices during patient hospital stay tend to improve patient autonomy. Several studies have concluded that self-administration of medication programs in hospital centers have a beneficial effect on patients' knowledge of their medications, their compliance and the safety of administration. Nevertheless, few studies have been carried out in France on this subject. The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the change of nurses administration practices from the administration of each drugs to supervision of self-administration by the patient under a self-administration program.

Enrollment: 192 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Care in the rehabilitation unit of Hospital in Valenciennes, France
• Patient with a planned stay of 7 days or more
• Patient on chronic treatment before admission to hospital ;
• Patients taking their treatment alone at home;

Exclusion criteria

• Age < 18 years old
• Patients with poor compliance
• No chronic treatment
• Unstable disease
• Major cognitive, memory or depressive disorders
• Swallowing disorders
• Prehension problems
• Patient under legal protection
• Patient under guardianship or curatorship
• Patient included in another trial

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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192 participants in 2 patient groups

Self administration of medication by the patient

Experimental group

Description:

Self administration of medication by the patient

Treatment:

Behavioral: Self-administration medicines

Administration of medication by the nurses

No Intervention group

Description:

Administration of medication by the nurses during medication administration rounds