Medication Reconciliation in Comparison to an Extensive Medication Safety Check

RWTH Aachen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adverse Drug Event; Elderly

Treatments: Other: Medication Reconciliation; Other: Pharmaceutical Care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02413957

14178

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine wether an extensive medication safety check has a greater impact on the incidence of adverse drug events than medication reconciliation or no intervention.

Enrollment: 220 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient 65 years and older
• written informed consent patient or the legal representative
• existing medication therapy at hospitalization
• admission to one of the project wards via emergency department (non elective)

Exclusion criteria

• patients included in the study previously

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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220 participants in 3 patient groups

Controll-Group

No Intervention group

Description:

Patient randomized to the Control-Group will receive the traditional care by physician and nurse on the ward.

MedRec-Group

Experimental group

Description:

Patient randomized to the MedRec-Group will receive the traditional care by physician and nurse on the ward and additional pharmacist led medication reconciliation.

Treatment:

Other: Medication Reconciliation

AMTS-Group

Experimental group

Description:

Patient randomized to the AMTS-Group will receive the traditional care by physician and nurse on the ward and additional pharmaceutical care by a pharmacist.

Treatment:

Other: Pharmaceutical Care