SImplification of Medications Prescribed to Long tErm care Residents (SIMPLER)

Not Applicable

Active, not recruiting

• Conditions: polypharmacy; medication incidents; dementia; cognitive impairment; falls; hospitalisation; frailty; Neurological - Dementias; Public Health - Health service research

• Registration Number: ACTRN12617001060336
• Lead Sponsor: Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University

Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Results First Posted: 1900-01-01
• Study Start: 2017-07-20
• Last Update Posted: 15 July 2019

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 194

Inclusion Criteria

Permanent residents of aged care facilities who are English-speaking and taking at least one medication.

Exclusion Criteria

Residents estimated by RACF staff to have less than three months to live and those deemed by facility staff to be medically unstable (e.g. experiencing delirium) will be excluded. Residents may also be excluded at the discretion of RACF staff and their treating clinicians. English-speaking residents who are unable to participate in the Short Assessment of Patient Satisfaction (SAPS) are still eligible for inclusion in the study.

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Total number of charted medication administration times over a 24 hour period for regular medications, determined from medication data extracted by the study nurses.[Baseline, and at 4 months after study entry.<br><br>]