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PolypharmacyNCT05156073

Shared Decision Making About Medication Use for People With Multiple Health Problems

A study testing Educational Materials in people with Polypharmacy and Dementia, run by Johns Hopkins University at 1 site in United States.

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Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

The Shared Decision Making about Medication Use for People with Multiple Health Problems study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of a deprescribing educational intervention in primary care for patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia and/or multiple chronic conditions (MCC), the patients' care… Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 65 years and olderHealthy volunteers can take part
What is being tested?
Educational Materials
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
22 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
22 May 2023to 3 Nov 2023
Phase
Interventional
Are there results?
Yes, posted in the registrySummary in the doctors' view

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 65 years and older
  • All sexes
  • Healthy volunteers accepted
  • Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • This study has two cohorts: A Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)/Dementia cohort and a non-dementia cohort.
  • MCI/Dementia cohort:
  • Age 65 or greater
  • Diagnosis of MCI or dementia from International Classification of Diseases ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes
  • At least one other chronic condition
  • Five or more chronic medications (to include all prescription and over-the-counter medications, both scheduled and as needed)
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  • Have a primary care physician at the pilot clinic who has enrolled in the study
  • Have a routine, scheduled visit with a primary care physician during the pilot study period (not an urgent, acute or pre-op visit)
  • Patient must be able to hear well enough to participate in interviews on the telephone.
  • Non-dementia cohort:
  • Age 75 or older
  • No MCI or dementia diagnosis
  • At least two chronic conditions documented
  • 5 or more chronic medications (to include all prescription and over-the-counter medications, both scheduled and as needed)
  • Have a primary care physician at the pilot clinic who has enrolled in the study
  • Have a routine, scheduled visit with a primary care physician during the pilot study period (not an urgent, acute, or pre-op visit).
  • Patient must be able to hear well enough to participate in interviews on the telephone.
  • Care partners:
  • Age 21 years or greater
  • Must be able to hear well enough to participate in interviews on the telephone.
  • Primary care physicians and medical assistants:
  • All primary care physicians and medical assistants at the pilot site will be included. Physicians who only provide urgent care will be excluded.

Who cannot join

  • As the pilot will be based in primary care, individuals residing in long-term care facilities or enrolled in hospice care at baseline will be excluded.
  • Patients taking 4 or fewer different medications for all their health needs will be excluded.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Reading Hospital Family Health Care Center

    Reading, Pennsylvania, 19611

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About this study

The Shared Decision Making about Medication Use for People with Multiple Health Problems study will assess the feasibility and acceptability of a deprescribing educational intervention in primary care for patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia and/or multiple chronic conditions (MCC), the patients' care partners, clinicians, and medical assistants.

The intervention consists of the following strategies: 1) a patient/caregiver component focused on education and activation about deprescribing, and 2) a clinician component focused on increasing clinician awareness about options and processes for deprescribing in the MCI/dementia and/or MCC population. Clinicians will each be asked to participate in a single, 15-minute educational session on deprescribing, and medical residents will receive a 45-minute lecture. Patients, caregivers, clinicians, and medical assistants will participate in a single one-on-one debriefing interview.

Read the detailed description

People living with dementia are prescribed more medications and have more complex medication regimens than people without dementia. These problems are exacerbated in people with dementia and multiple chronic conditions (MCC). Having multiple diseases simultaneously (e.g., diabetes and hypertension, and dementia) leads to the use of multiple drugs (polypharmacy) and potentially inappropriate medications, in which the risks of medications outweigh the benefits, or medications do not align with the patient's treatment goals. For individuals with dementia and MCC, taking more medications is associated with a greater risk of adverse drug events, drug interactions, and treatment burden. Medication regimen complexity is a major source of burden for family caregivers of people living with dementia and has been associated with numerous adverse outcomes. Studies suggest that as many as 56% of people with dementia take at least one potentially inappropriate medication, including medications that can negatively affect cognitive function. Optimizing medication use through deprescribing (the process of reducing or stopping the use of potentially inappropriate medications or medications unlikely to be beneficial) can improve outcomes for patients with dementia and MCC. Therefore, the investigator proposes a patient-centered deprescribing educational intervention for older adults with mild cognitive impairment or dementia and/or MCC, generalizable to a range of primary care settings. This study builds on OPTIMIZE, a multisite randomized trial within Kaiser Permanente Colorado that has been recently completed. OPTIMIZE is the investigator team's primary care-based deprescribing intervention for patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia, and MCC. OPTIMIZE consists of a patient and family component focused on education and activation about deprescribing and a clinician component to increase awareness about processes and language for deprescribing.

The investigators propose a pilot study of medication optimization through increased awareness of deprescribing for older adults with cognitive impairment and/or MCC. The intervention will have two components: a patient/ care partner component focused on education and activation about deprescribing, and a clinician component focused on increasing clinician awareness about options and processes for deprescribing in the cognitive impairment-MCC population. The proposed intervention has the following aims:

  1. To establish the feasibility and acceptability of the intervention among patients, caregivers, clinicians, and medical assistants in one healthcare system by assessing:
  2. Acceptability and process measures from a qualitative analysis of debriefing interviews with patients, care partners, clinicians, and medical assistants.
  3. To determine the preliminary efficacy of the intervention by assessing:
  4. Clinical documentation of deprescribing, defined as medication discontinuation or dose reduction.
  5. Clinical documentation of a discussion about medication appropriateness, safety, or effectiveness (yes/possible vs. no/absent).
Being tested
Educational Materials
Keywords
Deprescribing, Dementia
Medical subject headings
Dementia, Multiple Chronic Conditions, Cognitive Dysfunction

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Educational MaterialsOther

    1. Patient care partner cohort:
    2. mailing of an educational brochure introducing deprescribing to patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia and/or MCC and MCC care partners.
    3. Primary care physician cohort:
    4. education on deprescribing through a 15-45-minute presentation
    5. one-page weekly tip sheets on options for deprescribing in specific clinical situations and suggested language for deprescribing conversations.
Study groups in NCT05156073
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
InterventionExperimentalThe intervention consists of providing educational materials on deprescribing to: 1. Patient and care partner cohort 2. Primary care physician cohort
Receives: Other: Educational Materials

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Preliminary Efficacy of the Intervention to be Assessed From Primary Care Clinician's Intervention Visit Clinical Notes and EHR

    The investigators will assess the impact of the intervention by assessing the primary care clinician's documentation from the clinic visit immediately after the patient and care partner receive the intervention brochure.

    The following will be evaluated:

    1. Primary care clinician's documentation of discussions about medication appropriateness, safety, or effectiveness.
    2. Primary care clinician's documentation of planned medication changes (new medications to be added, dose increases, dose reductions, or medications to be stopped).
    3. The proportion of patients who deprescribe one or more medications
    4. The proportion of patients who add one or more medications

    These measures will be extracted from the electronic medical record.

    Measured: 1 year

Secondary outcomes (2)
  1. Acceptability of the Intervention to be Assessed Qualitatively From Debriefing Interviews

    The investigators will evaluate the acceptability of the intervention among patients, care partners, clinicians, and medical assistants by:

    1. determining which materials and features of the intervention are most and least acceptable to clinicians, medical assistants, patients, and care partners.

    These data will be obtained through the qualitative analysis of debriefing interviews.

    Measured: 1 year

  2. Feasibility of the Intervention to be Assessed Qualitatively From Debriefing Interviews

    The investigators will evaluate the feasibility of the intervention among patients, care partners, clinicians, and medical assistants by:

    1. identifying features of the clinic's culture or workflow that served as barriers or facilitators of the intervention.

    These data will be obtained through the qualitative analysis of debriefing interviews.

    Measured: 1 year

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted14 Dec 2021
  2. Study start22 May 2023
  3. Primary completion3 Nov 2023
  4. Study completion3 Nov 2023

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase N/A
Primary purpose
Health services research
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
22 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT05156073
Sponsor's protocol ID
IRB00253480
Other IDs
K23AG054742
Status last verified
Nov 2024
First submitted
1 Dec 2021
Last updated
27 Nov 2024
FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No

Publications

  • Boyd CM, Darer J, Boult C, Fried LP, Boult L, Wu AW. Clinical practice guidelines and quality of care for older patients with multiple comorbid diseases: implications for pay for performance. JAMA. 2005 Aug 10;294(6):716-24. doi: 10.1001/jama.294.6.716.

    PubMed 16091574
  • Alzheimer's Association. 2016 Alzheimer's disease facts and figures. Alzheimers Dement. 2016 Apr;12(4):459-509. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2016.03.001.

    PubMed 27570871
  • Lin PJ, Fillit HM, Cohen JT, Neumann PJ. Potentially avoidable hospitalizations among Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders. Alzheimers Dement. 2013 Jan;9(1):30-8. doi: 10.1016/j.jalz.2012.11.002.

    PubMed 23305822
  • Kelley AS, McGarry K, Gorges R, Skinner JS. The burden of health care costs for patients with dementia in the last 5 years of life. Ann Intern Med. 2015 Nov 17;163(10):729-36. doi: 10.7326/M15-0381. Epub 2015 Oct 27.

    PubMed 26502320
  • Willson MN, Greer CL, Weeks DL. Medication regimen complexity and hospital readmission for an adverse drug event. Ann Pharmacother. 2014 Jan;48(1):26-32. doi: 10.1177/1060028013510898. Epub 2013 Nov 5.

    PubMed 24259639
  • Bayliss EA, Shetterly SM, Drace ML, Norton J, Green AR, Reeve E, Weffald LA, Wright L, Maciejewski ML, Sheehan OC, Wolff JL, Gleason KS, Kraus C, Maiyani M, Du Vall M, Boyd CM. The OPTIMIZE patient- and family-centered, primary care-based deprescribing intervention for older adults with dementia or mild cognitive impairment and multiple chronic conditions: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2020 Jun 18;21(1):542. doi: 10.1186/s13063-020-04482-0.

    PubMed 32552857
  • George J, Phun YT, Bailey MJ, Kong DC, Stewart K. Development and validation of the medication regimen complexity index. Ann Pharmacother. 2004 Sep;38(9):1369-76. doi: 10.1345/aph.1D479. Epub 2004 Jul 20.

    PubMed 15266038
  • Travis SS, Bernard MA, McAuley WJ, Thornton M, Kole T. Development of the family caregiver medication administration hassles scale. Gerontologist. 2003 Jun;43(3):360-8. doi: 10.1093/geront/43.3.360.

    PubMed 12810899

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A study testing Educational Materials in people with Polypharmacy and Dementia, run by Johns Hopkins University at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 22 inclusion and 2 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Nov 2024. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

Are results available for this study?

Yes. Results are posted in the registry (first posted 27 Nov 2024). A summary is in the For doctors view, and the full results are on ClinicalTrials.gov.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Preliminary Efficacy of the Intervention to be Assessed From Primary Care Clinician's Intervention Visit Clinical Notes and EHR (time frame: 1 year). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT05156073, which also lists 8 linked publications.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Nov 2024.

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