Medication Reconciliation in Comparison to an Extensive Medication Safety Check

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Elderly; Adverse Drug Event
• Interventions: Other: Pharmaceutical Care; Other: Medication Reconciliation

• 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

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-01
• Study First Submitted: 2015-01-12
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-04-09
• Study First Posted: 2015-04-10
• Primary Completion: 2016-01
• Study Completion: 2016-01
• Status Verified: 2017-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2017-01-10
• Last Update Posted: 2017-01-11

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

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
AMTS-Group	Pharmaceutical Care	Patient randomized to the AMTS-Group will receive the traditional care by physician and nurse on the ward and additional pharmaceutical care by a pharmacist.
MedRec-Group	Medication Reconciliation	Patient randomized to the MedRec-Group will receive the traditional care by physician and nurse on the ward and additional pharmacist led medication reconciliation.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
incidence of adverse drug events	1 year

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
number of medication related problems	1 year
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.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University Hospital Aachen; 🇩🇪 Aachen, Germany