Clinical trials: Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use
Polypharmacy, Incontinence
An Intervention Study to Reduce the Use and Impact of Potentially Inappropriate Medications Among Older Adults
An educational intervention targeting community-dwelling older adults will lead to a reduction in potentially inappropriate prescriptions (e.g. benzodiazepines, oxybutynin).
- Conditions
- Polypharmacy, Incontinence, Insomnia, Anxiety
- Trial name
- NCT01148186
- Testing
- knowledge transfer tool
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 300 people
- Sponsor
- Centre de Recherche de l'Institut Universitaire de Geriatrie de Montreal
Adverse Drug Effects
The Use of STOPP/START Criteria for Medication Intervention Among Elderly Population Living in a Geriatric Hospital
The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of STOPP/START criteria (STOPP-screening tool of older persons potentially inappropriate prescriptions START-screening tool to alert doctors to right treatment)for medication…
- Trial name
- STOPP (NCT01602744)
- Testing
- STOPP/START screening tools for medication intervention
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 382 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Wolfson Medical Center
Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use
Trial of a Pharmacist-physician Intervention Model to Reduce High-risk Drug Use by Hospitalised Elderly Patients
The study population will consist of all elderly (65 and older) patients hospitalized at the Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke.
- Trial name
- NCT02570945
- Testing
- Pharmacist-physician intervention to reduce high-risk medication use by elderly inpatients
- Volunteers
- 321 people
- Sponsor
- Centre de recherche du Centre hospitalier universitaire de Sherbrooke
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
Malnutrition, Aged
Nutritional Status and Medication Treatment in Home-dwelling Older Adults
The project "Nutrition and Medication management in home-dwelling older adults" consist of two separate studies witch are described in the same study protocol. This is the first study in this Project.
- Conditions
- Malnutrition, Aged, Polypharmacy
- Trial name
- NCT04229238
- Where
- Norway
- Volunteers
- 400 people
- Sponsor
- University of Oslo
Dementia, Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use
e-ALIGN: A Patient Portal-based Intervention to Align Medications With What Matters Most
The overarching goal of this study is to pilot an intervention in which older adults with mild cognitive impairment and dementia and the older adult's care partners are identified in primary care and provided with educational…
- Conditions
- Dementia, Potentially Inappropriate Medication Use, Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI)
- Trial name
- e-ALIGN (NCT07454824)
- Testing
- e-ALIGN Patient-Portal Deprescribing
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University