Reducing Costs by Deprescribing Medications

The University of Texas System (UT)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Adverse Drug Reaction; Deprescribing; Polypharmacy

Treatments: Behavioral: Usual Care; Behavioral: Deprescribing Intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04553107

2019-410

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of the study is to implement a pharmacist-led deprescribing intervention for adults 65 and older taking 10 or more medications at University of Texas (UT) Physicians clinics and to assess the effect of the pharmacist intervention on the incidence of adverse drug reactions, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations as well as costs to the patient and to the healthcare system in adults 65 and older taking 10 or more medications treated at UT Physicians.

Enrollment: 419 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• taking 10 or more regular medications

Exclusion criteria

• not receiving primary care at UT Physicians

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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419 participants in 2 patient groups

Deprescribing Intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Deprescribing Intervention

Usual Care

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Usual Care