The Effects of an Intervention to Optimise Quality Use Of Medicines In Older People in Hospital
- Conditions
- Medication burdenPublic Health - Health service research
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12622000374763
- Lead Sponsor
- orthern Sydney Local Health District
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 1290
Stepped wedge randomised control trial: adults aged 65 years or older admitted to one of the six participating hospital sites for >=48 hours (and/or their carers),
Mixed methods analysis: adults aged 65 years or older admitted to one of the six participating hospital sites for >=48 hours (and/or their carers), clinicians working in the target wards at one of the six participating hospital sites, GPs of the eligible patients
DBI Stewardship: DBI score>0
Stepped wedge randomised control trial: adults whose hospital admission <48 hours.
DBI Stewardship: DBI score=0
Some individuals may not survive the index admission. However, this will not be applied as exclusion criteria because it may bias the study cohort to comprise of fitter individuals and reduce the representativeness of the hospital population. This can be managed by manually identifying the individuals who do not survive their initial hospital admission during the trial period and reporting this finding.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Any reduction of at least 1 anticholinergic and/or sedative medication, as measured by the DBI Calculator on discharge compared to admission[At discharge from hospital admission]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method