Telephone Contact Between Hospital and General Practitioner About Medication Review for Older Patients

Odense University Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cross-sectional Communication; Older Patients; Medication Review

Treatments: Behavioral: Medication review

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03369652

1704197 (Other Grant/Funding Number)

OP_468

Details and patient eligibility

About

In this trial, the feasibility of cooperation between clinical pharmacists and physicians by conducting a telephone follow-up conversation between the hospital geriatrician, the general practitioner and the clinical pharmacist is evaluated. During hospital stay the clinical pharmacist and the geriatrician will review older patients' medication and discuss the future treatment with the general practitioner after discharge by telephone or medico-technology.

The first part of the feasibility study will be a qualitative baseline measure of characteristics of the participants and work flow. The second part will be a pilot randomized controlled study where participants will be allocated to either usual care or medication review and follow up contact

Enrollment: 232 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* 5 drugs or more

Exclusion criteria

• Terminal illness
• Not able to speak and understand Danish

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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232 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Medication history by pharmaconomist. Medication review by pharmacist, patient interview, and conference with physician in hospital, telephone contact to general practitioner after discharge, medication report sent to primary care.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Medication review

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

Medication history by pharmaconomist. Usual care by physicians.