Improving Medication Prescribing-Related Outcomes for Vulnerable Elderly

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

Medication safety is a crucial health issue for every older Canadian since many of the medications causing serious harm are those which also have life-saving or important symptom-relieving benefits. Very few specialists can accurately advise seniors which medications provide more benefit than harm for them personally, and make changes safely as this requires a very large breadth and depth of knowledge about the patient, the conditions they have and their therapies. Now that telemedicine is compatible with smart phones, this extends the ability of scarce specialists to 'see' any patient in Canada in a way that is more convenient for the patient and may be less expensive than current care. This project will find out whether a unique Clinical Pharmacology specialist team in Hamilton, Ontario can improve medication safety (stop medications no longer needed, reduce doses where appropriate, change to safer medications) for a high risk group of older hospitalized Canadians taking many medications. The hospital where this pilot study will take place was the first to install the world's leading electronic health record and set it up to facilitate and support high quality research. Patients who volunteer will be assigned to their usual care, or to the intervention which is the Clinical Pharmacology specialist team approach starting in hospital and following up with the patient at home using telemedicine and detailed communication with them, their caregiver, family physician, community pharmacist and other specialists. The investigators will study whether the intervention is effective and cost-effective at reducing harmful medication burden, reducing the need to return to hospital, or improving the patient's ratings of their care coordination. The results will determine whether a subsequent large trial is worthwhile.

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Related Conditions & MeSH terms

Aged
Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions
Health Care Costs
Patient Discharge

Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT04077281
Study type	Interventional
Source	St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton
Contact	Anne Holbrook
Phone	905-522-1155
Email	holbrook@mcmaster.ca
Status	Recruiting
Phase	N/A
Start date	June 1, 2023
Completion date	December 2024

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Clinical trials are conducted in a series of steps, called phases - each phase is designed to answer a separate research question.

Phase 1: Researchers test a new drug or treatment in a small group of people for the first time to evaluate its safety, determine a safe dosage range, and identify side effects.
Phase 2: The drug or treatment is given to a larger group of people to see if it is effective and to further evaluate its safety.
Phase 3: The drug or treatment is given to large groups of people to confirm its effectiveness, monitor side effects, compare it to commonly used treatments, and collect information that will allow the drug or treatment to be used safely.
Phase 4: Studies are done after the drug or treatment has been marketed to gather information on the drug's effect in various populations and any side effects associated with long-term use.

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