Hospital discharge study

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Discharge of multimorbid elderly hospital patients; Not Applicable

• Registration Number: ISRCTN18427377
• Lead Sponsor: niversity Hospital of Zurich

Brief Summary

2018 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30591069 protocol 2021 Other publications in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34045217/ process evaluation (added 01/06/2021) 2022 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36045192/ (added 01/09/2022)

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-01-11
• Study Completion: 2021-04-30
• Last Update Posted: 12 September 2022

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 687

Inclusion Criteria

1. In-hospital patient at the time of inclusion
2. Male or female of 60 years or older with 5 or more drugs prescribed
3. Signed informed consent or – in case of a patient incapable of judgement – written consent of a representative according to the Swiss law (fulfillment of the criteria laid down in HFG Art. 24, 1a.-c. with a legal representative according to ZGB Art. 378)

Exclusion Criteria

1. End-stage disease with a life expectancy below 3 months
2. Cognitive inability to follow study procedures neither independently nor with assistance
3. Hospitals who took part in the Swiss national pilot project progress! Sichere Medikation an Schnittstellen” will not be considered for participation in the trial (but may be involved in the pilot phase of the study).

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified