Telephone Contact Between Hospital and General Practitioner About Medication Review for Older Patients

NCT ID: NCT03369652

Last Updated: 2019-03-19

Study Results

Results pending

The study team has not published outcome measurements, participant flow, or safety data for this trial yet. Check back later for updates.

Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

232 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-11-24

Study Completion Date

2018-11-30

Brief Summary

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In this trial, the feasibility of cooperation between clinical pharmacists and physicians by conducting a telephone follow-up conversation between the hospital geriatrician, the general practitioner and the clinical pharmacist is evaluated. During hospital stay the clinical pharmacist and the geriatrician will review older patients' medication and discuss the future treatment with the general practitioner after discharge by telephone or medico-technology.

The first part of the feasibility study will be a qualitative baseline measure of characteristics of the participants and work flow. The second part will be a pilot randomized controlled study where participants will be allocated to either usual care or medication review and follow up contact

Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Older Patients Medication Review Cross-sectional Communication

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Intervention

Medication history by pharmaconomist. Medication review by pharmacist, patient interview, and conference with physician in hospital, telephone contact to general practitioner after discharge, medication report sent to primary care.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Medication review

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Conducted by the pharmacist and discussed with hospital physician

Control

Medication history by pharmaconomist. Usual care by physicians.

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Medication review

Conducted by the pharmacist and discussed with hospital physician

Intervention Type BEHAVIORAL

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

\* 5 drugs or more

Exclusion Criteria

* Terminal illness
* Not able to speak and understand Danish
Minimum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Odense University Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Lene V. Ravn-Nielsen

Pharmacist

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Anton PottegÄrd, phd

Role: STUDY_CHAIR

University of Southern Denmark

Locations

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Odense University Hospital

Odense, , Denmark

Site Status

Svendborg Sygehus

Svendborg, , Denmark

Site Status

Countries

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Denmark

Other Identifiers

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1704197

Identifier Type: OTHER_GRANT

Identifier Source: secondary_id

OP_468

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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