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A mono-center, randomized controlled trial will be conducted at the University Hospital of Lausanne. Hospitalized patients will be randomly assigned from the emergency department to two sub-units composing the acute care for elders (ACE) unit. In one subunit, potentially inappropriate prescriptions will be detected and treatment optimized according PIM-Check. In the other, STOPP/START criteria will be independently applied.


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NCT number NCT04028583
Study type Interventional
Source Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois
Contact Chantal Csajka, PharmD, PhD
Phone +41 21 314 42 63
Email chantal.csajka@chuv.ch
Status Recruiting
Phase N/A
Start date February 26, 2018
Completion date August 4, 2019

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