ACTRN12618001130257
Completed
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Simplifying complex medication regimens for older people with cognitive and related functional decline receiving community-based home care services: protocol for a pilot and feasibility study
Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University0 sites25 target enrollmentJuly 10, 2018
Overview
- Phase
- 未知
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- polypharmacy
- Sponsor
- Centre for Medicine Use and Safety, Monash University
- Enrollment
- 25
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 4 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
No summary available.
Investigators
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •The participants will be 50 clients receiving Commonwealth Home Support Programme services or Home Care Packages in metropolitan and rural South Australia. Clients will be eligible if they are prescribed medications two or more times daily. The clients will be purposely sampled to include clients who are frail and non\-frail, with and without functional impairment, and with and without dementia.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Clients estimated to have less than three months to live and those deemed by health professionals and caregivers to be medically unstable (e.g. experiencing delirium) will be excluded. Clients may also be excluded for any other reason at the discretion of their regular treating clinicians or informal caregivers.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Not specified
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