An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions for Elderly Patients in General Practice

NCT ID: NCT00281450

Last Updated: 2010-04-28

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

PHASE1/PHASE2

Total Enrollment

85836 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-01-31

Study Completion Date

2007-03-31

Brief Summary

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This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients \> 70 years.

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Aged Family Practice

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

SINGLE_GROUP

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

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.

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* General practitioner
* Specialist in general practice
Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Oslo

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

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.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 16764734 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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850652

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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