Improving Compliance Among Elderly Polypharmacy Users Through Community Pharmacy Based Pharmaceutical Care Program

Ringkobing Love Apotek

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 2

Conditions: Polypharmacy

Treatments: Other: Pharmaceutical care program

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00916214

RLA Trial

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the project is to evaluate effectiveness of a multidimensional pharmaceutical care plan in improving compliance among elderly polypharmacy users at community pharmacy settings. The specific objective of the project is to determine effects of pharmaceutical care program on medication adherence and persistence among elderly polypharmacy users.

Enrollment: 200 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Both men and woman aged more than 65 years and taking more than 2 drugs

Exclusion criteria

• Inhabitants of nursing homes
• People receiving unit dose dispensing of medicine

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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200 participants in 1 patient group

Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Pharmaceutical care program