The eDosette Pilot Study

McMaster University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Medication Adherence

Treatments: Other: eDosette

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03513224

CAT2015-25

Details and patient eligibility

About

Medication non-adherence can lead to serious health issues for older adults. This study is a four week study in older adults using a new device, the eDosette, which dispenses and records how one takes their medications, and subsequently makes this information available to the primary care team by the internet. This study aims to show that the eDosette can report how well a group of older adults living independently in the community are taking their medications (e.g. "medication adherence"). This study hopes to show that the eDosette intervention could play a role in medication adherence by improving conversations between older adults and primary care.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age 65 and over
• taking five or more medications (including supplements)
• using or willing to use a blister pack or dosette
• currently managing their medications independently
• living independently
• English speaking

Exclusion criteria

• a documented diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment or dementia
• living in any form of assisted living facility
• currently palliative
• currently deemed medically unstable by their primary care team

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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57 participants in 1 patient group

eDosette

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: eDosette