Polypharmacy as a result of multiple chronic conditions of older people: rational therapy with the new FORTA classification?
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- eligible for the study are patients of a geriatric unit with numerous co-morbid conditions.
- Registration Number
- DRKS00000531
- Lead Sponsor
- Institut für klinische Pharmakologie MannheimUniversität Heidelberg
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 400
Inclusion Criteria
informed consent given,
stable clinical condition,
no palliative condition
Exclusion Criteria
missing informed consent,
palliative clinical condition,
unstable clinical condition,
need of intensive care unit (ICU) treatment
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The FORTA classification encompasses four classes of drugs. Drugs with well documented evidence for the elderly constitute the classes A and B, drugs with limited evidence constitute the class C. Drug of the class D should be avoided in the elderly.<br><br>The aim of the study is the statistical measurement of the difference in the distribution of medication at discharge according to the four classes of FORTA between the two patient groups (clusters). <br><br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Statistically comparisone of the the two clusters regarding<br>Number of untreated disease<br>Number of diseases overtreated