What is the Impact of Implementing Pharmaceutical Algorithms in the PharmaClass® Software, on the Handling the Patient's Medication Load, by the Clinical Pharmacist?

Completed

• Conditions: Pharmacist-Patient Relations
• Interventions: Other: Pharmaclass® software

• Registration Number: NCT05416892
• Lead Sponsor: Murielle Surquin

Brief Summary

The clinical pharmacists present in the hospitalisation units aim to ensure the daily review of the drug prescriptions of hospitalized patients.

In order to optimize their work, the objective of this study would be to provide them with a clinical decision support tool via artificial intelligence in order to improve the patient's medication management. This study will test the Pharmaclass® software.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2021-09-14
• Primary Completion: 2022-04-01
• Study Completion: 2022-04-01
• Status Verified: 2022-06
• Study First Submitted: 2022-06-09
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-06-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-06-09
• Study First Posted: 2022-06-14
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 109

Inclusion Criteria

• Hospitalized patient entering the SU06 or SU13 geriatrics unit of the Paul Brien site of the CHU Brugmann Hospital between November 16 2021 and April 15, 2022
• Speaking French and/or Dutch
• With chronic renal failure or taking at least one medicine for diabetes, heart, COPD, asthma, high blood pressure, epilepsy, atrial fibrillation, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, pain, parkinsonism, blood clotting, constipation, thyroid, depression, benign prostatic hypertrophy, gastric ulcer, Alzheimer's disease, cirrhosis as well as for electrolyte disorders (hypo or hypernatremia / potassium / calcium/magnesemia/phosphatemia).

Exclusion Criteria

• Patient who died or was transferred to another care unit during his/her hospitalization

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Patients of Geriatric Wards SU06 and SU13 of the CHU Brugmann Hospital	Pharmaclass® software	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time	5 months	Time required to perform an intervention (pharmacist versus software)
Dosage compliance	5 months	Dosage compliance with existing recommendations and laboratory results/clinical parameters (pharmacist versus software)
Medication error severity	5 months	Severity of the medication error that could be avoided (pharmacist versus software)
Geriatrician approval	5 months	Number of interventions validated/refused by the geriatrician (pharmacist versus software)

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Brugmann university hospital; 🇧🇪 Brussels, Belgium