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Reducing Injuries From Medication-Related Falls Using Computerized Alerts for High Risk Patients

This study is currently recruiting participants.
Verified April 2013 by McGill University
Sponsor:
Collaborator:
Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Information provided by (Responsible Party):
Robyn Tamblyn, McGill University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
NCT00818285
First received: January 5, 2009
Last updated: April 25, 2013
Last verified: April 2013
History of Changes
  Purpose

Drug-related illness accounts for 5% to 23% of hospital admissions, and is now claimed to be the sixth leading cause of mortality. Older adults are at higher risk of adverse drug-related events, and medication-related fall injuries are the most common adverse event that could be potentially prevented. There are 1.2 million falls per year among Canadian elderly, at a cost of $2.4 billion in health care services, and substantial risk of loss of independence.

The overall purpose of this research program is to reduce medication-related fall injuries by using computerized electronic prescribing and drug management systems to identify high risk patients and provide physicians with patient-specific recommendations for modifying psychotropic medication use to reduce this risk.


Condition Intervention
Fall Related Injury Risk
 Device: CDS for psychotropic drug management

Study Type: Interventional
Study Design: Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single Blind (Subject)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: Reducing Injuries From Medication-Related Falls by Generating Targeted Computerized Alerts for High Risk Patients Within an Electronic Prescribing System

Further study details as provided by McGill University:

Primary Outcome Measures:
  • rate of potentially inappropriate psychotropic medication [ Time Frame: September 2008-July 2010 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Secondary Outcome Measures:
  • Fall-related injury risk, fall related injuries, and hospitalizations. [ Time Frame: September 2008 - December 2011 ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]

Estimated Enrollment: 4800
Study Start Date: September 2008
Estimated Study Completion Date: July 2014
Estimated Primary Completion Date: July 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Arms Assigned Interventions
No Intervention: 1
Physicians in this arm will be using the standard electronic prescription interface.
Experimental: 2
In addition to the standard electronic prescription module, physicians in this arm will receive targeted drugs alert and decision support for psychotropic drug management
 Device: CDS for psychotropic drug management
Computerized decision support (CDS) for patients with available supplies of psychotropic medications. The decision support will consist of a screen displaying to the physician the patient's current risk of falling as well as what their risk could be lowered to with modifications to medications.

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  Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:   65 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:   Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:   No
Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Physicians are eligible for inclusion if they are general practitioners or family physicians in full-time (≥ 4 days/week), fee-for-service practice in Quebec-patients where the study physician has written or dispensed psychotropic medications

Exclusion Criteria:

  • under 65 years old
  Contacts and Locations
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00818285

Contacts
Contact: Robyn Tamblyn, PhD 514-934-1934 ext 32999 robyn.tamblyn@mcgill.ca

Locations
Canada, Quebec
McGill University Recruiting
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Contact: Robyn Tamblyn, PhD     514-934-1934 ext 32999     robyn.tamblyn@mcgill.ca    
Sponsors and Collaborators
McGill University
Canadian Patient Safety Institute
Investigators
Principal Investigator: Robyn M Tamblyn, PhD McGill University
  More Information

No publications provided by McGill University

Additional publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):

Responsible Party: Robyn Tamblyn, Professor, McGill University
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00818285     History of Changes
Other Study ID Numbers: RFA06-1035-QC
Study First Received: January 5, 2009
Last Updated: April 25, 2013
Health Authority: Canada: Ethics Review Committee

Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Psychotropic Drugs
Central Nervous System Agents
Therapeutic Uses
Pharmacologic Actions

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on May 19, 2013