Hip fracture
Conditions
Interventions
The intervention consisted of an assessment of the appropriateness of polypharmacy and deprescribing any unnecessary medications by internal medicine physicians during the patients'
hospital stay
We used hip fracture patients prescribed five or more medications at admission who pharmacist could not contact or rejected to receive the intervention for polypharmacy as a control grou
Sponsors
Tochigi Medical Center
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: all consecutive patients aged 65 years or more who were admitted to the hospital for hip fracture and who were prescribed five or more than medications at admission
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Patients with hip fracture due to metastatic bone cancer were excluded
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| The primary composite outcome was death or the first occurrence of any new fracture | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Secondary outcomes were death, any new fractures, cardiovascular events, delirium, adverse drug events, in-hospital infections, or unplanned hospital admission for any reason. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactJunpei Komagamine
Tochigi Medical Center Internal medicine
Outcome results
None listed