Clinical trials: Polypharmacy
Inappropriate Prescribing, Primary Health Care
Deprescribing in Primary Health Care
Medications can help older adults but can also harm them. Frail older adults tend to have many health problems that require treatment, but are also at risk of harm from the medications prescribed.
- Conditions
- Inappropriate Prescribing, Primary Health Care, Polypharmacy
- Trial name
- NCT03903484
- Testing
- Deprescribing toolbox and intervention
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 7 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nova Scotia Health Authority
Polypharmacy, Inappropriate Prescribing
Opportunities and Limits to Deprescribing in Nursing Homes:Quality Circle Deprescribing Module
Older people residing in nursing homes (NH) are frequently polymedicated and often prescribed potentially inappropriate medications.
- Trial name
- OLD-NH-QC-DeMo (NCT03688542)
- Testing
- Quality Circle Deprescribing Module
- Where
- Switzerland
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Anne Niquille
Polypharmacy, Adverse Drug Reaction
Deprescribing of Symptomatic Medications in Rehabilitative or Subacute Care Patients
Deprescribing is a systematic method of withdrawing potentially inappropriate or unnecessary medications and is warranted in the elderly due to the high prevalence of polypharmacy.
- Trial name
- NCT03354845
- Testing
- Deprescribing intervention
- Volunteers
- 200 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bright Vision Hospital