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An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions for Elderly Patients in General Practice

This study has been completed.
Sponsor:
Information provided by:
University of Oslo
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00281450
First received: January 3, 2006
Last updated: April 27, 2010
Last verified: December 2005
History of Changes
  Purpose

This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients > 70 years.


Condition Intervention Phase
Aged
Family Practice
 Behavioral: Educational intervention
 Phase 1
Phase 2

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Health Services Research
Official Title: A Cluster Randomized Educational Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescription Patterns for Elderly Patients in General Practice

Further study details as provided by University of Oslo:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • Changes in a set of predefined quality indicators measuring appropriateness of prescriptions for elderly out-patients [ Time Frame: 1 year ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]
    Prescription data for 1 year were retrospectively retrieved from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) and assessed in relation to 13 prescription quality indicators.


Enrollment: 85836
Study Start Date: January 2006
Study Completion Date: March 2007
Primary Completion Date: March 2007 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Intervention Details:
    Behavioral: Educational intervention
    We developed a set of explicit criteria for pharmacological inappropriateness for Norwegian GPs' prescribing to elderly patients. The main purpose of the criteria was to serve as quality indicators during an educational intervention: the Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study, aimed at improving GPs' prescribing for elderly patients.
  Eligibility

Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • General practitioner
  • Specialist in general practice
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00281450

Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Oslo
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Sture Rognstad, MD University of Oslo
  More Information

No publications provided by University of Oslo

Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Responsible Party: Jorund Straand, professor MD PhD, University of Oslo
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00281450     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: 850652
Study First Received: January 3, 2006
Last Updated: April 27, 2010
Health Authority: Norway: Norwegian Social Science Data Services

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 23, 2013