Clinical trials: Elderly Internal Medicine Patients
Simulation Training, Anticoagulant Drugs
E-learning to Improve Oral Anticoagulant Use in Hospitalized Older People With AF
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia and the main cause of cardioembolic stroke. Oral Anticoagulation (OAC) has been shown to significantly prevent AF-related thromboembolism, however, despite convincing…
- Conditions
- Simulation Training, Anticoagulant Drugs, Elderly, Atrial Fibrillation
- Trial name
- SIM-AF (NCT03188211)
- Testing
- E-learning educational program, Control
- Where
- 20 sites in Italy
- Volunteers
- 247 people
- Sponsor
- Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research
Elderly Internal Medicine Patients
Intervention to Improve Prescribing in Elderly Patients
This study tested the efficacy of an easy-to-use checklist aimed at supporting the therapeutic reasoning of physicians in order to reduce inappropriate prescribing and polypharmacy in elderly adults admitted to an internal…
- Trial name
- NCT02712268
- Testing
- Checklist
- Volunteers
- 450 people
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland