Health Condition 1: Z758- Other problems related to medicalfacilities and other health care
Conditions
Interventions
Intervention1: Inter-departmental Collaborative Medication Review: Healthcare professionals, such as pharmacists and physicians, work together to review a patients medication regimen to optimize medic
Sponsors
Indian Council of Medical Research
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: All hospitalised elderly patients aged above 60 years
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: 1. Those patients who will get discharged against medical advice before the completion of the treatment. 2. Patients who will be referred to other hospitals for varied reasons. 3. Those patients or patients’ kin who refuse to give consent to participate in the study. 4. Readmissions and emergency department visits other than DRPs.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Facilitators and barriers in the implementation of inter-departmental Collaborative Medication Review to reduce potentially inappropriate medications Timepoint: Medication charts will be reviewed every 3rd day since admission until discharge of the patient | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. Costs involved in the implementation of CMR in Indian healthcare settings (tertiary health care settings perspective) 2. Change in number of potentially inappropriate medications from hospital admission to discharge due to CMR. 3. Change in the MAI score from hospital admission to discharge due to CMR. 4. Number of medication related hospital admissions from the day of discharge to 30 days post- discharge.Timepoint: Medication charts will be reviewed every 3rd day since admission until discharge of the patient | — |
Countries
India
Contacts
Public ContactDr. Rajesh Kumar Konduru
Pondicherry Institute of Medical Sciences
Outcome results
None listed