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NCT03091153
Deprescribing in a Long Term Care Facility
NA trial testing Medication Review in Polypharmacy in 67 participants. Completed in 1 June 2019.
31 December 2018
Quick facts
| Lead sponsor | Memorial University of Newfoundland |
|---|---|
| Phase | NA |
| Status | Completed |
| Study type | INTERVENTIONAL |
| Allocation | randomized |
| Design | parallel |
| Masking | single |
| Primary purpose | treatment |
| Enrollment | 67 |
| Start date | 30 March 2017 |
| Primary completion | 31 December 2018 |
| Estimated completion | 1 June 2019 |
| Sites | 1 location across Canada |
Drugs / interventions tested
- Medication Review
Conditions studied
- Polypharmacy — all drugs for Polypharmacy →
Sponsor
Memorial University of Newfoundland
Who can join
65 and older, any sex, with Polypharmacy. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.
Sponsor's own description
This study will develop, implement and evaluate a deprescribing initiative at a Canadian Long Term Care (LTC) Facility. Residents currently undergo an annual medication review as part of the clinical pharmacy services provided in the LTC facility. For this study, eligible residents will be randomized to receive either a deprescribing focused medication review or usual care. The deprescribing focused medication therapy assessments will be done on half of the 143 residents residing on the second and third floors of the facility. The other half of residents will serve as the control group and continue to receive their annual medication review and regular care from the attending physicians and nurses. The deprescribing intervention will be delivered by final year pharmacy students completing their practice experiences, under the supervision of clinical pharmacists at the LTC facility and clinical pharmacists from Memorial University's Medication Therapy Services (MTS) Clinic. Currently the clinic has a well developed procedure for providing in depth medication therapy reviews for residents of the community, upon referral by their primary care physician. Students will adapt this model of medication review to have a stronger deprescribing focus and be applicable to elderly residents of a LTC facility. The intervention will consist of an in depth medication therapy review with a focus on identifying any medications that may no longer be required or are deemed to be inappropriate or potentially unsafe in the elderly based on currently guidelines/criteria. The students will work closely with members of the resident's care team on a daily basis, as well as the resident and their family, to develop and implement a deprescribing plan.
Publications & conference data
No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial. Completed trials usually publish results within 12-18 months.
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Verify against primary sources
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- Trial protocol + status: ClinicalTrials.gov NCT03091153 (US National Library of Medicine, public domain)
- Drug + disease cross-links: matched in real time against Drug Landscape's normalised drug + company + condition tables
- Sponsor: as reported to ClinicalTrials.gov by Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Last refreshed: 22 July 2019
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