Multi-PAP: Improving Prescription in Primary Care Patients With Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy

NCT ID: NCT02866799

Last Updated: 2020-08-06

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

593 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2016-11-30

Study Completion Date

2018-02-28

Brief Summary

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This study assesses the effectiveness of a complex intervention in young-old patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy aimed at improving physician drug prescription in primary care, measured by means of the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI)-score at six 6 (T1) and 12 (T2) months from baseline compared to usual care.

Detailed Description

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Design: Pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial with 12 months follow-up.

Unit of randomization: general practitioner.

Unit of analysis: patient.

Setting: Primary Health Care Centres in three different Spanish Autonomous Communities (Aragón, Madrid and Andalucía).

Population: Patients 65-74 years of age with multimorbidity (3 or more chronic diseases) and polypharmacy (5 or more drugs taken for at least three months). N=400 patients (200 in each arm, 5 patients per physician) will be recruited by general practitioners before randomization.

Intervention: complex intervention.

Control group: usual care.

Variables: MAI, health care utilization, quality of life (Euroqol 5 Dimensions (5D-5L), drug therapy and adherence (Morisky-Green, Haynes-Sackett), clinical and socio-demographic factors. Economic appraisal variables: time spent training FPs, cost of teaching staff, time spent on physician-patient interviews, utilities measured using the EuroQol 5D-5L.

Analysis: All analyses will be carried out adhering to the intention-to-treat principle. Description of baseline characteristics. Basal comparison between groups. Analysis of main and secondary effectiveness (between-group difference in T1-T0 MAI score, with corresponding 95% Confidence Interval); multilevel analysis will be used to adjust models. Estimated quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) gained at the population level. Calculation of cost-utility ratio.

Conditions

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Multimorbidity Polypharmacy Other Diagnoses, Comorbidities, and Complications

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Multi-PAP intervention

Complex intervention with general practitioners and patients

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Multi-PAP

Intervention Type OTHER

Complex intervention based on the ARIADNE principles with two main components: 1) Training of general practitioners and 2) Patient centered clinical interview.

Usual care

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will receive the usual clinical care based on current clinical practice guidelines.

Usual care

Patients will receive the usual clinical care

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Usual care

Intervention Type OTHER

Patients will receive the usual clinical care based on current clinical practice guidelines.

Interventions

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Multi-PAP

Complex intervention based on the ARIADNE principles with two main components: 1) Training of general practitioners and 2) Patient centered clinical interview.

Intervention Type OTHER

Usual care

Patients will receive the usual clinical care based on current clinical practice guidelines.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients 65-74 years of age with multimorbidity (3 or more chronic diseases) and polypharmacy (5 or more drugs taken for at least three months).
* Informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria

* Institutionalized patient at nursing homes or similar
* Life expectancy \< 12 months
Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

74 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Gerencia de Atención Primaria, Madrid

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Aragon Institute for Health Research (IIS Aragón)

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Andaluz Health Service

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Red de Investigación en Servicios de Salud en Enfermedades Crónicas

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Instituto de Salud Carlos III

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role collaborator

Instituto Aragones de Ciencias de la Salud

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Alexandra Prados Torres

Medical Doctor, PhD

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Alexandra Prados-Torres, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Instituto Aragonés de Ciencias de la Salud (IACS)

Daniel Prados-Torres, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Servicio Andaluz de Salud (Andaluz Health Service)

Isabel Del Cura-González, MD, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Gerencia de Atención Primaria, Madrid

Locations

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Málaga, Andalusia, Spain

Site Status

Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain

Site Status

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Prados-Torres A, Del Cura-Gonzalez I, Prados-Torres D, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Leiva-Fernandez F, Calderon-Larranaga A, Lopez-Verde F, Gimeno-Feliu LA, Escortell-Mayor E, Pico-Soler V, Sanz-Cuesta T, Bujalance-Zafra MJ, Morey-Montalvo M, Boxo-Cifuentes JR, Poblador-Plou B, Fernandez-Arquero JM, Gonzalez-Rubio F, Ramiro-Gonzalez MD, Coscollar-Santaliestra C, Martin-Fernandez J, Barnestein-Fonseca MP, Valderas-Martinez JM, Marengoni A, Muth C; Multi-PAP Group. Effectiveness of an intervention for improving drug prescription in primary care patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: study protocol of a cluster randomized clinical trial (Multi-PAP project). Implement Sci. 2017 Apr 27;12(1):54. doi: 10.1186/s13012-017-0584-x.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28449721 (View on PubMed)

Prados-Torres A, Del Cura-Gonzalez I, Prados-Torres JD, Leiva-Fernandez F, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Calderon-Larranaga A, Muth C. [Multimorbidity in general practice and the Ariadne principles. A person-centred approach]. Aten Primaria. 2017 May;49(5):300-307. doi: 10.1016/j.aprim.2016.11.013. Epub 2017 Apr 17. Spanish.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28427915 (View on PubMed)

Prados-Torres D, Del Cura-Gonzalez I, Prados-Torres A. [Towards a multimorbidity care model in Primary Care]. Aten Primaria. 2017 May;49(5):261-262. doi: 10.1016/j.aprim.2016.11.004. Epub 2017 Jan 11. No abstract available. Spanish.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 28089227 (View on PubMed)

Rogero-Blanco E, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Sanz-Cuesta T, Aza-Pascual-Salcedo M, Bujalance-Zafra MJ, Cura-Gonzalez I; MultiPAP Group. Use of an Electronic Clinical Decision Support System in Primary Care to Assess Inappropriate Polypharmacy in Young Seniors With Multimorbidity: Observational, Descriptive, Cross-Sectional Study. JMIR Med Inform. 2020 Mar 3;8(3):e14130. doi: 10.2196/14130. Erratum In: JMIR Med Inform. 2020 Nov 19;8(11):e25678. doi: 10.2196/25678.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 32149715 (View on PubMed)

Prados-Torres A, Cura-Gonzalez ID, Prados-Torres JD, Muth C, Leiva-Fernandez F, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Gonzalez-Rubio F. MULTIPAP Study: Improving healthcare for patients with multimorbidity. Br J Gen Pract. 2020 Jun;70(suppl 1):bjgp20X711257. doi: 10.3399/bjgp20X711257.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 32554653 (View on PubMed)

Lozano-Hernandez CM, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Leiva-Fernandez F, Calderon-Larranaga A, Barrio-Cortes J, Gimeno-Feliu LA, Poblador-Plou B, Cura-Gonzalez ID; MULTIPAP GROUP. Social support, social context and nonadherence to treatment in young senior patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy followed-up in primary care. MULTIPAP Study. PLoS One. 2020 Jun 24;15(6):e0235148. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0235148. eCollection 2020.

Reference Type RESULT
PMID: 32579616 (View on PubMed)

Del Cura-Gonzalez I, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Leiva-Fernandez F, Gimeno-Miguel A, Poblador-Plou B, Lopez-Verde F, Lozano-Hernandez C, Pico-Soler V, Bujalance-Zafra MJ, Gimeno-Feliu LA, Aza-Pascual-Salcedo M, Rogero-Blanco M, Gonzalez-Rubio F, Garcia-de-Blas F, Polentinos-Castro E, Sanz-Cuesta T, Castillo-Jimena M, Alonso-Garcia M, Calderon-Larranaga A, Valderas JM, Marengoni A, Muth C, Prados-Torres JD, Prados-Torres A; Multi-Pap Group. How to Improve Healthcare for Patients with Multimorbidity and Polypharmacy in Primary Care: A Pragmatic Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial of the MULTIPAP Intervention. J Pers Med. 2022 May 6;12(5):752. doi: 10.3390/jpm12050752.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35629175 (View on PubMed)

Leiva-Fernandez F, Prados-Torres JD, Prados-Torres A, Del-Cura-Gonzalez I, Castillo-Jimena M, Lopez-Rodriguez JA, Rogero-Blanco ME, Lozano-Hernandez CM, Lopez-Verde F, Bujalance-Zafra MJ, Pico-Soler MV, Gimeno-Feliu LA, Poblador-Plou B, Martinez-Canavate MT, Muth C; MULTIPAP Group. Training primary care professionals in multimorbidity management: Educational assessment of the eMULTIPAP course. Mech Ageing Dev. 2020 Dec;192:111354. doi: 10.1016/j.mad.2020.111354. Epub 2020 Sep 15.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32946885 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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PI: 15/00572,15/00276,15/00996

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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