Educational intervention on medication reviews aiming to reduce acute healthcare consumption in elderly patients with potentially inappropriate medicines-A pragmatic open-label cluster-randomized controlled trial in primary care.
Katharina Schmidt-MendeM AndersenB WettermarkJ HasselströmPublished in: Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety (2017)
No changes were seen in acute health care consumption, PIMs, and MRs in elderly patients after an educational intervention in primary care. The reasons for the lack of effect could be a suboptimal intervention, limitations in outcome measures, and the use of administrative data to monitor outcomes.
Keyphrases
- healthcare
- primary care
- randomized controlled trial
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- respiratory failure
- clinical trial
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- type diabetes
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- metabolic syndrome
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- adipose tissue
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- insulin resistance
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- phase iii
- placebo controlled