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Elderly Appropriate Treatment in Primary Care (EAT)
In Brief
A clinical study evaluating Systematic medication review with the STOPP/START tool for Elderly and Polypharmacy. Completed, enrolled 3,032 participants across 1 site.
Detailed Summary
The general practitioner (GP) is confronted, for a part of his clientele, with the management of patients suffering from multimorbidity, leading most often to a polypharmacy. It has five major consequences: increasing the number of inappropriate treatments, increasing the risk of potentially dangerous drug interactions, increasing the risk of contraindications associated with several concomitant pathologies, decreasing adherence to treatments by patients and the increased cost of care. Drug misuse in the elderly is particularly common, due to the age-related physiological changes and physiological alterations, with the consequent increase in the risk of adverse events, particularly hospitalizations. Several tools have been proposed to decrease morbimortality in elderly patients with polypharmacy. The studies concluded that the STOPP/START tool was the most structured, sensitive and had the most appropriate use format for clinical practice. However, there are currently no ambulatory studies demonstrating the impact of prescription revision with STOPP/START on the morbimortality of persons aged 75 years and over. This study aims to assess the effectiveness of an intervention targeting GPs to decrease morbimortality in elderly patients with polypharmacy. Volunteer GPs will be randomly assigned to either the intervention group or to usual care (control group) and they will be followed one year. The intervention consists in systematic medication review by GP with STOPP/START. In both groups, patient morbimortality will be measured at the end of the study.
Study Details
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Interventions
The STOPP / START tool includes a list of 42 substances / drug classes whose prescription could be discontinued based on specific criteria (81 STOPP criteria: Screening Tool of Older Person's Prescriptions) and a list of 34 clinical situations involving consideration of the usefulness of a new prescription (START criteria: Screening Tool to Action the Right Treatment).