Clinical trials: Inappropriate Prescribing
Patient Safety, Inappropriate Prescribing
A Randomised Pilot Study of the REVISiT Intervention
In 2012, the General Medical Council (GMC) funded PRACtICe (PRevalence And Causes of prescrIbing errors in general practiCe) study, reported that 1 in 20 prescriptions in general practice were found to have a prescribing or…
- Conditions
- Patient Safety, Inappropriate Prescribing, Medication Errors
- Trial name
- NCT04586595
- Testing
- REVISiT intervention
- Where
- 4 sites in United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 9 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nottingham
Inappropriate Prescribing
Using a Mobile Application as a Support at the Prescription of Appropriate Medications for Elderly
Objective: To develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a mobile application to support decision making for prescription drugs to elderly patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02918643
- Testing
- Use of an application to for mobile devices like decision-making support for prescription drugs to elderly patients
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Bahia
Lumbosacral Muscle Strain
Evaluating Effectiveness of Educational Intervention to Help Physicians Address Inappropriate Patient Requests for Direct-to-Consumer Advertised Prescription Medications
The purpose of this study is to determine whether physicians can be educated to better handle inappropriate requests from patients for direct-to-consumer advertised prescription medications.
- Trial name
- NCT00915291
- Testing
- Web-based educational modules
- Where
- 4 sites in United States
- Volunteers
- 133 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- American Medical Association
Inappropriate Prescribing, Implementation Science
De-implementation of Low-value Pharmacological Prescriptions
The De-imFAR study is a two phase study that aims to carry out and test a structured, evidence-based and theory informed process involving the main stakeholders (managers, professionals, patients and researches) for the design…
- Conditions
- Inappropriate Prescribing, Implementation Science, Behavioral Sciences
- Trial name
- De-imFAR (NCT04022850)
- Testing
- A non-reflective decision assistance strategy, A both reflective and non-reflective decision information strategy, A reflective decision structure strategy
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 348 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Basque Health Service
Inappropriate Prescribing, Primary Health Care
Deprescribing in Primary Health Care
Medications can help older adults but can also harm them. Frail older adults tend to have many health problems that require treatment, but are also at risk of harm from the medications prescribed.
- Conditions
- Inappropriate Prescribing, Primary Health Care, Polypharmacy
- Trial name
- NCT03903484
- Testing
- Deprescribing toolbox and intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 7 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
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
Prescribing
Testing CDS in OSCAR EMR Using STOPP Criteria
This mixed methods study seeks to assess and understand the impact of using an advanced CDS tool to present the STOPP criteria to support prescribers at the point of decision-making.
- Trial name
- STOPP-RCT (NCT02130895)
- Testing
- STOPP Criteria Decision Support Content
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 28 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of British Columbia