Effect of Medication Reviews Performed in High Risk Patients

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Patients in Highest Medication Error Risk
• Interventions: Other: Stratified medication review

• Registration Number: NCT01819974
• Lead Sponsor: University of Aarhus

Brief Summary

The purpose of the study is to examine whether a stratified medication review performed in patients at highest risk of experiencing medication errors have impact on numbers of medication errrors during hospitalization.

Detailed Description

Acutely admitted medical patients will be included after admission. After inclusion and randomization the patients will be risk stratified with an existing algorithm according to risk of medication error. The patients in the intervention group will receive a medication review performed by a clinical pharmacist if they are in high medication error risk. Patients in highest medication error risk will recieve a medication review performed by a clinical pharmacologist.

Basic Information
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Recruitment & Eligibility
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Study & Design
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Trial Locations

Study Timeline

• Study First Submitted: 2013-03-18
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-03-22
• Study First Posted: 2013-03-28
• Study Start: 2013-04
• Status Verified: 2013-11
• Primary Completion: 2013-11
• Last Update Submitted: 2013-11-27
• Last Update Posted: 2013-11-28
• Study Completion: 2014-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 600

Inclusion Criteria

• Acutely admitted
• >17 years
• Patients being treated with at least one drug at admission

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Exclusion Criteria

• Dying patients
• Suicidal patients
• Intoxicated patients

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Stratified medication review	Stratified medication review	Medication review performed by either a clinical pharmacist or a clinical pharmacologist in patients with highest medication error risk

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Medication errors	During hospitalization ie. between 8 hours and approximately 20 days	Medication errors are defined as errors in prescribing that has the potential to harm patients or actually harm patients. This will be assessed by checking the medical records. Two independent experts will do this.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
hospital readmissions (all-cause)	3 months after discharge

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Aarhus University Hospital; 🇩🇰 Aarhus, Denmark