Effect of medication review and counselling of community pharmacist of patients discharged from the hospital on medication safety and compliance.

Status

Recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

NL-OMON

Registry ID

NL-OMON25120

Enrollment

345

Registered

2008-01-08

Start date

2008-02-01

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2024-02-28

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Conditions

Drug related problems (NLD: geneesmiddelgerelateerde problemen).

Interventions

Intervention: A systematic medication review by community pharmacists. Pharmacy technicians will counsel patients at home at baseline and at 1, 3, 6, 9 and 12 months, using cognitive behaviour thera

Eligibility

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients older than 60 years; 2. using five or more prescription-only chronically used drugs when admitted to the hospital; 3. discharged from the departments of cardiovasculair disease, lung disease or internal medicine; 4. patients have to give written consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: 1. Patients discharged to a nursing home; 2. patients to confused to beable to adequately participate in the intervention will be excluded; 3. terminal ill patients; 4. patients unable to cummunicate in the Dutch language.

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame
Effects will be assesed in terms of changes in the occurence of drug related probems.	—

Secondary

Measure	Time frame
Secondary endpoints are attitude to drugs, persistence of drug adherence, quality of life, re-hospitalisation related to medicines and cost-effectiveness.	—

Contacts

Public ContactS.J.A. Pans

Clinical Pharmacology and Pharmacy VU University Medical Center PO Box 7057

a.ahmad@vumc.nl00 31 06 24593855

Outcome results

None listed

Source: NL-OMON (via WHO ICTRP)