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The general practitioner (GP) is confronted, for a part of his clientele, with the management of patients suffering from multimorbidity, leading most often to a polypharmacy. It has five major consequences: increasing the number of inappropriate treatments, increasing the risk of potentially dangerous drug interactions, increasing the risk of contraindications associated with several concomitant pathologies, decreasing adherence to treatments by patients and the increased cost of care. Drug misuse in the elderly is particularly common, due to the age-related physiological changes and physiological alterations, with the consequent increase in the risk of adverse events, particularly hospitalizations. Several tools have been proposed to decrease morbimortality in elderly patients with polypharmacy. The studies concluded that the STOPP/START tool was the most structured, sensitive and had the most appropriate use format for clinical practice. However, there are currently no ambulatory studies demonstrating the impact of prescription revision with STOPP/START on the morbimortality of persons aged 75 years and over. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of an intervention targeting GPs to decrease morbimortality in elderly patients with polypharmacy. Volunteer GPs will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or to usual care (control group) and they will be followed one year. The intervention consists in systematic medication review by GP with STOPP/START. In both groups, patient morbimortality will be measured at the end of the study.


Clinical Trial Description

STOPP/START criteria for potential inappropriate prescribing in older people recognise the dual nature of inappropriate prescribing by including a list of potentially inappropriate medications (STOPP criteria) and potential prescribing omissions (START criteria). ;


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NCT number NCT03298386
Study type Interventional
Source Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
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Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date August 1, 2017
Completion date October 2019

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