Can a review of the medication of elderly nursing and residential home patients improve the quality of prescribing and residents' outcomes?

ISRCTN	ISRCTN45416155
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1186/ISRCTN45416155
Secondary identifying numbers	N0436118166

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Statistical analysis plan

Results

Individual participant data

Plain English summary of protocol

Not provided at time of registration

Dr A Zermansky
Scientific

Division of Academic Pharmacy Practice
School of Healthcare Studies
Baines Wing
University of Leeds
Leeds
LS2 9LN
United Kingdom

Phone	+44 (0)113 233 1256
Email	a.g.zermansky@leeds.ac.uk

Study design	Randomised controlled trial
Primary study design	Interventional
Secondary study design	Randomised controlled trial
Study setting(s)	Not specified
Study type	Treatment
Scientific title
Study objectives	1. Improve quality of therapeutics care for elderly residents of homes 2. Reduce risk of adverse drug reactions and interactions 3. Improve economy of prescribing 4. Mental and physical well-being as measured by mini-mental state and Barthel scores respectively
Ethics approval(s)	Not provided at time of registration
Health condition(s) or problem(s) studied	Medication review of elderly patients
Intervention	Random allocation to: 1. Standard treatment 2. Medication review
Intervention type	Other
Primary outcome measure	1. Compare the number of changes made to repeat medication schedules between baseline and end data collection 2. The cost of repeat medications and the number per patient will be compared in this order of priority
Secondary outcome measures	Not provided at time of registration
Overall study start date	01/01/2002
Completion date	01/01/2004

Participant type(s)	Patient
Age group	Senior
Sex	Both
Target number of participants	Not provided at time of registration
Key inclusion criteria	Patients aged 65 or over and on at least one repeat medication at the time of identification and in a nursing or residential home.
Key exclusion criteria	Not provided at time of registration
Date of first enrolment	01/01/2002
Date of final enrolment	01/01/2004

Division of Academic Pharmacy Practice

Leeds
LS2 9LN
United Kingdom

Department of Health (UK)
Government

Richmond House
79 Whitehall
London
SW1A 2NL
United Kingdom

Website	http://www.doh.gov.uk

Government

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UK)

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Individual participant data (IPD) Intention to share	No
IPD sharing plan summary	Not provided at time of registration
Publication and dissemination plan	Not provided at time of registration
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Output type	Details	Date created	Date added	Peer reviewed?	Patient-facing?
Results article	Results	01/11/2006		Yes	No