Clinical trials: Deprescribing
Polypharmacy, Inappropriate Prescribing
Opportunities and Limits to Deprescribing in Nursing Homes:Quality Circle Deprescribing Module
Older people residing in nursing homes (NH) are frequently polymedicated and often prescribed potentially inappropriate medications.
- Trial name
- OLD-NH-QC-DeMo (NCT03688542)
- Testing
- Quality Circle Deprescribing Module
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Anne Niquille
Medical Overuse, Inappropriate Prescribing
Engaging Patients to Promote Deprescribing
One mechanism to reduce potentially inappropriate medications is through deprescribing, a deimplementation-based approach to thoughtfully discontinue a medication a patient is currently prescribed.
- Conditions
- Medical Overuse, Inappropriate Prescribing, Deprescriptions
- Trial name
- NCT04294901
- Testing
- Direct to patient medication brochure
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 5,946 people
- Sponsor
- VA Office of Research and Development