An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions for Elderly Patients in General Practice
NCT ID: NCT00281450
Last Updated: 2010-04-28
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Basic Information
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COMPLETED
PHASE1/PHASE2
85836 participants
INTERVENTIONAL
2006-01-31
2007-03-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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Conditions
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Study Design
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RANDOMIZED
SINGLE_GROUP
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
NONE
Interventions
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Educational intervention
We developed a set of explicit criteria for pharmacological inappropriateness for Norwegian GPs' prescribing to elderly patients. The main purpose of the criteria was to serve as quality indicators during an educational intervention: the Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study, aimed at improving GPs' prescribing for elderly patients.
Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* Specialist in general practice
ALL
No
Sponsors
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University of Oslo
OTHER
Responsible Party
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University of Oslo
Principal Investigators
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Sture Rognstad, MD
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
University of Oslo
References
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Straand J, Fetveit A, Rognstad S, Gjelstad S, Brekke M, Dalen I. A cluster-randomized educational intervention to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients in general practice--The Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) study [NCT00281450]. BMC Health Serv Res. 2006 Jun 11;6:72. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-72.
Other Identifiers
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850652
Identifier Type: -
Identifier Source: org_study_id
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