Drug Use, Quality of Life
Conditions
Keywords
elderly people, geriatric short-stay, STOPP/START criteria
Brief summary
Assess the impact of the systematic use of STOPP/START tool during medication conciliation on the evolution of hospitalised elderly people's quality of life at 2 months.
Interventions
PROCEDURESTOPP/START criteria
software which helps to do the drug reconciliation
Sponsors
Lille Catholic University
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Subject)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
75 Years to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Patient with more than 75 years old * Hospitalized in geriatrics short-stay * Patient with a written informed consent * Patient with a social security scheme
Exclusion criteria
* Severe dementia * Not able to respond to SF-12 * Disease at final stage * Patient under legal protection (maintenance of justice, tutelage, legal guardianship)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| SF-12 Quality of life scale | at inclusion and at 2 months | The evolution of the hospitalised elderly people's quality of life at 2 months will be measured by the SF-12 scale. |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Proportion of patients rehospitalized | at 2 months | The proportion of patients that have been rehospitalized (unscheduled hospitalization) during the two months following inclusion will be measured. |
| Number of falls | at 2 months | The number of falls during the two months following the inclusion will be collected for each patient. |
| Mortality | at 2 months | The mortality during the two months following inclusion will be measured. |
Countries
France
Outcome results
None listed