Studying the Impact of a Medication Use Evaluation by the Community Pharmacist (SIMENON)

Joke Wuyts

Status: Completed

Conditions: Aging

Treatments: Behavioral: Additional data collection: questionnaires; Behavioral: Medication review

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03179722

SIMENONv3

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this intervention study, 75 Belgian community pharmacies each recruit 12 patients for an intermediate medication review. For each patient, the identified drug-related problems and subsequent interventions are registered using the PharmDisc classification. In a subset of Dutch speaking patients, a pretest-posttest single group design is used to measure the impact of this review on patient related outcomes using questionnaires. The primary outcome is the medication related quality of life, measured via the living with medicines questionnaire. Other patient reported outcomes include adherence, self-management, patient satisfaction, fall incidents and use of emergency healthcare services. Medication records are also collected to objectively measure adherence before and after the intervention.

Enrollment: 453 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 70+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients should be 70 years or older
• Use five or more drugs on a regular basis (prescription or non-prescription drugs)
• Live in the ambulatory setting
• Obtain his medication from this pharmacy on a regular basis

Exclusion criteria

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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453 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention group: Frenchspeaking patients

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention: Medication review

Treatment:

Behavioral: Medication review

Intervention group: Dutchspeaking patients

Experimental group

Description:

Intervention: Medication review Intervention: Dutchspeaking patients are also invited to participate to Additional data collection: questionnaires

Treatment:

Behavioral: Additional data collection: questionnaires

Behavioral: Medication review