Supporting people living with multiple long-term conditions (multimorbidity) to manage their medicines and link to community resources: a randomised trial in Irish general practice
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Patients living with multimorbidity (defined as two or more conditions and taking 10 or more regular medicines)Not Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN11585238
- Lead Sponsor
- Trinity College Dublin
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Ongoing
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 672
Inclusion Criteria
1. Adults enrolled in the Chronic Disease Management (CDM) Programme
2. Living with two or more chronic conditions
3. Taking at least 10 regular medicines
Exclusion Criteria
1. Unable to provide informed consent based on language or serious cognitive impairment
2. Have participated in a link worker social prescribing intervention in the previous three years
3. Have met with a GP-based pharmacist in the previous three years
4. Limited life expectancy (less than the intervention duration and follow-up period)
5. Residing in nursing homes and residential care facilities or who are housebound, as these people will not be attending their GP for an in-person CDM review.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method