Medication Reconciliation in Comparison to an Extensive Medication Safety Check
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- ElderlyAdverse Drug Event
- Registration Number
- NCT02413957
- Lead Sponsor
- RWTH Aachen University
- Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is to determine wether an extensive medication safety check has a greater impact on the incidence of adverse drug events than medication reconciliation or no intervention.
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- COMPLETED
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 220
Inclusion Criteria
- Patient 65 years and older
- written informed consent patient or the legal representative
- existing medication therapy at hospitalization
- admission to one of the project wards via emergency department (non elective)
Exclusion Criteria
- patients included in the study previously
Study & Design
- Study Type
- INTERVENTIONAL
- Study Design
- PARALLEL
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method incidence of adverse drug events 1 year
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Assessment of the clinical relevance of medication related problems as determined by the French Society of Clinical Pharmacy 1 year Severity scale for medication related problems: minor, significative, major, critical, catastrophic
Assessment of the clinical relevance of discrepancies as determined by the French Society of Clinical Pharmacy 1 year Severity scale for discrepancies: minor, significative, major, critical, catastrophic
number of discrepancies 1 year duration of taking the best possible medication history 1 year The duration is measured in minutes.
number of medication related problems 1 year
Trial Locations
- Locations (1)
University Hospital Aachen
🇩🇪Aachen, Germany
University Hospital Aachen🇩🇪Aachen, Germany