what percentage of elderly cancer patients are on inappropriate medications
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- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: C00-D49- Neoplasms
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2019/04/018684
- Lead Sponsor
- Tata Memorial Hospital Mumbai
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Yet Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
Inclusion Criteria
1.Age equal to or greater than 65
2.Histologically confirmed diagnosis of malignancy.
3.Patient without major cognitive impairment, who can understand and agree to participate in the trial.
Exclusion Criteria
1.Patients with incomplete medication list
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To study the prevalence of potentially inappropriate medications in elderly cancer patients.Timepoint: visit 1
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.To study the prevalence of polypharmacy in elderly cancer patients. <br/ ><br>2.To study the prevalence of use of complementary/ alternative medicine in elderly cancer patients. <br/ ><br>3.To study the presence of drug interactions of baseline prescribed medications with the planned systemic therapy. <br/ ><br>4.To evaluate if any socio-demographic characteristics, comorbidities, baseline laboratory parameters or specific geriatric variables correlate with PIM usage. <br/ ><br>Timepoint: visit 1