Tool for Inappropriate Prescription Evaluation: The TaIPE Study

Vaud University Hospital Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Inappropriate Prescribing

Treatments: Other: PIM-Check; Other: STOPP/START

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04028583

TaIPE

Details and patient eligibility

About

A mono-center, randomized controlled trial will be conducted at the University Hospital of Lausanne. Hospitalized patients will be randomly assigned from the emergency department to two sub-units composing the acute care for elders (ACE) unit. In one subunit, potentially inappropriate prescriptions will be detected and treatment optimized according PIM-Check. In the other, STOPP/START criteria will be independently applied.

Enrollment: 464 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All patients meeting the admission criteria of the acute care for elders (ACE) unit will be eligible.

Exclusion criteria

• none

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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464 participants in 2 patient groups

PIM-Check group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: PIM-Check

STOPP/START group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Other: STOPP/START