Status:
UNKNOWN
Prevention of Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing in Late Life Using Screening Tool of Older Persons' Potentially Inappropriate Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tool to Alert Doctors to Right Treatment (START) Criteria
Lead Sponsor:
Cork University Hospital
Conditions:
Healthy
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
Potentially inappropriate prescribing is common in older patients and encompasses overuse, misuse and underuse of medications. Potentially inappropriate prescribing is associated with negative outcome...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- All patients aged 65 years and older admitted to the general medical services of Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland
Exclusion
- Patient admitted to a geriatric medicine service, psychiatry of old age service or clinical pharmacology service, or under review of these services during the previous 12 months
- Critically ill patient (admitted to the intensive care unit)
- Terminally ill patient
- Refusal of patient or hospital physician to participate
- No time for the research physician to enrol the patient within 3 days of admission
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2007
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
June 1 2009
Estimated Enrollment :
400 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00915824
Start Date
November 1 2007
End Date
June 1 2009
Last Update
October 29 2009
Active Locations (1)
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Cork University Hospital
Cork, Ireland