Improving Compliance Among Elderly Polypharmacy Users Through Community Pharmacy Based Pharmaceutical Care Program

Ringkobing Love Apotek200 enrolled

Overview

The aim of the project is to evaluate effectiveness of a multidimensional pharmaceutical care plan in improving compliance among elderly polypharmacy users at community pharmacy settings. The specific objective of the project is to determine effects of pharmaceutical care program on medication adherence and persistence among elderly polypharmacy users.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

SUPPORTIVE_CARE

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Polypharmacy

Interventions

Pharmaceutical care programOTHER

The pharmaceutical care program consists of 2 elements, that includes individualized medication education and regular follow up

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 65 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Both men and woman aged more than 65 years and taking more than 2 drugs Exclusion Criteria: * Inhabitants of nursing homes * People receiving unit dose dispensing of medicine

Locations (1)

Ringkøbing Løve Apotek

Ringkøbing, Denmark

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

change in medication adherence from run-in to the end of phase 1

Time frame: 6 months

persistence of mean medication adherence

Time frame: 12 months

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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