Status:

COMPLETED

Inappropriate Prescription in Elderly and Polypharmacy Patients in Primary Care (PHARM-PC) Trial

Lead Sponsor:

Hospital Comarcal de Inca

Conditions:

Elderly (People Aged 65 or More)

Polypharmacy (People Under Treatment With 5 or More Drugs)

Eligibility:

All Genders

65+ years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

PHARM-PC study is based on identify potentially inappropriate prescriptions (PIP) and delivery therapeutic appropriateness recommendations from the pharmacist to the physician and about drugs prescrib...

Detailed Description

Main objective: To assess the effect of Pharmaceutical Intervention (PI) on PIP in elderly patients with polypharmacy in PC. Secondary objectives: 2\. a. Assess baseline characteristics of elderly ...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • age ≥ 65 years
  • treatment with 5 or more chronic medications.

Exclusion

  • routine monitoring is carried out in private health care
  • temporary displaced persons (routine monitoring is carried out in another community).
  • Institutionalized patients
  • Patients in the Home Care Program

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

January 1 2015

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

June 1 2016

Estimated Enrollment :

549 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT02224833

Start Date

January 1 2015

End Date

June 1 2016

Last Update

July 27 2016

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Sector Sanitario Tramuntana

Inca, Balearic Islands, Spain, 07300