OPTIM-EHPAD Optimization of Drug Prescription for Each Resident Entering in Nursing Home (EHPAD).

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Iatrogenic Effect

Treatments: Other: OPTIM-EHPAD tool

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05179642

69HCL17_0009

Details and patient eligibility

About

Elderly people are at high risk of multiple medication which increases drug interactions and side effects. This problem is accentuated in EHPAD due to the multiplication of prescribers (the referring physician, the hospital physician, the specialist, the emergency physician, the coordinating physician). The lack of optimization of drug prescriptions in EHPAD can be responsible for iatrogenic, underuse and overuse of treatment, impacting the autonomy and quality of life of residents in EHPAD in France.

A method for optimizing diagnostic and drug management at the entry of a new EHPAD resident, called OPTIM EHPAD, has been tested in Languedoc-Roussillon (France) and validated. This is a consultation between the referring physician and the EHPAD coordinating physician. Some improvements have been made to this method in order to have an optimized version.

Physician's cooperation seems to promote decision-making and change in therapies. The objective of this study is to assess the theoretical effectiveness and efficiency of this approach.

It is supposed that the provision to the EHPAD coordinating physician of a method for optimizing the diagnostic and drug management of the new EHPAD resident (based on a decision following consultation between the referring doctor and the coordinating doctor) would impact on the resident care process, on their care results and on communication and coordination between the coordinating physician and the referring physician.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• • Coordinating physician of EHPAD who don't have an indoor pharmacy (PUI) from the Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées region and the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.
• New resident entering a participating EHPAD

Exclusion criteria

• • Residents who don't have a referring physician when entering EHPAD

Trial design

2,000 participants in 2 patient groups

Control group

Description:

This is a randomized, cluster stepped wedge study. The cluster will be made up of coordinating physicians grouped together according to the geographical area of their EHPAD. Residents entering EHPAD during the pre-interventional inclusion period will be treated as usual in EHPAD. They will constitute the control group.

Tool OPTIM-EHPAD

Description:

This is a randomized, cluster stepped wedge study. The cluster will be made up of coordinating physicians grouped together according to the geographical area of their EHPAD. Residents entering EHPAD during the post-intervention inclusion period will have the optimization of their diagnostic and drug management, following a consultation between their referring physician and the coordinating physician based on the OPTIM-EHPAD method. They will constitute the intervention group. The intervention is based on the utilization of the OPTIM-EHPAD method. It consists in training for coordinating physician and, optionally, for referring physician. It's a pedagogic tool proposing a rigorous methodology for reviewing prescriptions in chronological stages, associated with memos, constituting a form of clinical path for improving the quality and safety of prescriptions for EHPAD residents.

Treatment:

Other: OPTIM-EHPAD tool