Impact of the Systematic Use of the Criteria STOPP/START in Short Stay Geriatric. (REVOR)

Lille Catholic University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Quality of Life; Drug Use

Treatments: Procedure: STOPP/START criteria

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03393299

RC-P0059

Details and patient eligibility

About

Assess the impact of the systematic use of STOPP/START tool during medication conciliation on the evolution of hospitalised elderly people's quality of life at 2 months.

Enrollment: 65 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 75+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient with more than 75 years old
• Hospitalized in geriatrics short-stay
• Patient with a written informed consent
• Patient with a social security scheme

Exclusion criteria

• Severe dementia
• Not able to respond to SF-12
• Disease at final stage
• Patient under legal protection (maintenance of justice, tutelage, legal guardianship)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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65 participants in 2 patient groups

STOPP/START

Experimental group

Description:

Use of STOPP/START criteria during medication reconciliation

Treatment:

Procedure: STOPP/START criteria

CONTROL

No Intervention group

Description:

Medication reconciliation done as usual, without the consideration of the STOPP/START criteria