Focus on the Elderly in a Nursing Home Clinical Trial
Official title:
The Impacts of Pharmaceutical Cares on the Elderly in a VA Nursing Home.
This study investigates the effect of pharmaceutical care on a Veteran nursing home. 100
patients will be selected into this controlled study.The hypothesis are:
1. After patients receive pharmaceutical care, their drug related problems will be
decreased.
2. After patients received pharmaceutical care, their self-reported medical expenditure
will be decreased.
Around 200 residents in a Veteran nursing home will be selected for reviewing inclusion and
exclusion criteria. A total of 100 subjected are selected into this randomized controlled
trial. Each group will have 50 subjects and then divides into 4 subgroup, according to their
drug items used (5-7 and over 8 items used).
The inclusion criteria:
1. Residents of the Veteran nursing home.
2. over 65 years old.
3. complete comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA)
4. prescription drugs more than 4 times/day, excluding stat order.
5. with 2 or more chronic diseases.
Exclusion criteria:
1. residents who were in the pharmaceutical care project of Taiwan Pharmacists Association.
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Observational Model: Case Control, Time Perspective: Prospective