OptiMEDs Pilot Study

NCT04142645 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: B670201940251
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 148
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 3

Brief Summary

Pilot study of the OptiMEDs intervention: a complex intervention for multidisciplinary medication review (including nurses, pharmacists, and physicians) in nursing homes (NH), with ICT-support for the evaluation of the appropriateness of prescribing and for side-effect monitoring.

Conditions

Medication Review; Nursing Home Resident; Nursing Home

Keywords

Medication Reconciliation; Aged

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (9)

• Software/user problems

  monthly number of interventions for software/user problems (n)

  6 months

• functionality problems

  Number of functionality problems (n)

  6 months

• workload

  Timing of workload for nurses \& pharmacists regarding the use of OptiMEDs (time)

  6 months

• medication chart review

  duration of a medication chart review by GP and nurse (time)

  6 months

• practical problems

  listing of practical problems for organizing the medication chart review

  6 months

• GPs that refuse

  number of GPs that refuse to participate / accept to participate (n)

  6 months

• non-consenting eligible residents (n)

  Number of non-consenting eligible residents legally capable to give consent (n)

  6 months

• Non-consenting proxies for eligible residents (n)

  Number of non-consenting proxies for eligible residents legally not capable to give consent

  6 months

• Optimeds completion

  Number of symptom observations and medication reviews completed (on time) (n)

  6 months

Secondary Outcomes (9)

• number of medications

  4 months

• number of anticholinergics

  4 months

• number of candidates for de-prescribing

  4 months

• patient-related pain

  4 months

• patient-related alertness

  4 months

Study Arms (2)

Intervention

EXPERIMENTAL

The intervention group (i.e. all eligible and consented residents of 2 NHs) will receive the OptiMEDs intervention: the combination of an electronic decision support tool (for the appraisal of potentially inappropriate medication use, anticholinergic use, or medications that can be de-prescribed in view of limited life expectancy) with focused nurse observations (using a list of potential medication-related symptoms based on the individual medication chart of the nursing home residents), that will serve as the basis during a multidisciplinary medication review with the input of GPs, trained community pharmacists and nurses.

Device: OptiMEDs

Control

NO INTERVENTION

The control group (i.e. all eligible and consented residents of one control NH) will receive usual care .

Interventions

OptiMEDs DEVICE

The OptiMEDs intervention is a multi-faceted intervention combining: 1. an ICT platform: * automatic and secure capture of individual prescribing information from the electronic medication administration records in the nursing home * a tool for structured nurse observations of side effects, derived from the existing Pharmanurse application (20) (used to list potential medication side effects, based on the individual medication chart of the nursing home residents) to support monitoring of medication safety by nurses. * an electronic decision support tool for the appraisal of potentially inappropriate medication (explicit criteria of misuse and underused of medication, based on existing lists of explicit criteria (PIMs)), use of medication with anticholinergic properties and medication inappropriate in view of the limited life expectancy. 2. a multidisciplinary medication review with the input of GPs, trained community-pharmacists and nurses.

Intervention

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 65 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• located in East Flanders
• size: \> 100 beds
• mixed population of high care dependent and low care-dependent residents with and without dementia
• software of Care Solutions or Farmad is used for electronic handling of the medication chart
• the NH management as well as the responsible CRA and the community pharmacist who delivers the medication in the NH give their written agreement to participate
• aged 65 years or older
• mentally fit as well as cognitive impaired NH residents will be included after Informed Consent given by the resident (mentally capable residents) or his representative (cognitive impaired residents, defined as a sumscore of 6 or more on the KATZ items of disorientation in time and place).

You may not qualify if:

• they have a limited life-expectancy (less than 3 months, as judged and documented by the treating GP)
• they are residing in a short-stay / revalidation bed
• GP refused to have his NH residents included in this pilot

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Ghent: lead
• Universiteit Antwerpen: collaborator

Study Sites (3)

WZC Sint-Jozef Deinze

Deinze, Oost-Vlaanderen, 9800, Belgium

Location

WZC Sint-Jozef Gent

Ghent, Oost-Vlaanderen, 9000, Belgium

Location

WZC Liberteyt

Ghent, 9000, Belgium

Location

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Study Officials

• Thierry Christiaens, PhD, MD

  Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NON RANDOMIZED
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: OTHER
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: A pragmatic cluster-randomized trial with the inclusion of two NHs where the feasibility and acceptability of the OptiMEDs intervention will be tested and one NH where the standard of care will be registered.

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 30, 2019
• First Posted: October 29, 2019
• Study Start: October 9, 2019
• Primary Completion: March 20, 2020
• Study Completion: March 20, 2020
• Last Updated: November 29, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

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