An Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescriptions for Elderly Patients in General Practice

This study will explore the possible effect of a tailored educational intervention towards general practitioners, in order to reduce inappropriate prescription patterns for elderly patients > 70 years.

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Key information

Conditions

Aged Family Practice

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Phase 1 / Phase 2

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

General practitioner
Specialist in general practice

Treatment and study plan

Educational intervention

Behavioral

We developed a set of explicit criteria for pharmacological inappropriateness for Norwegian GPs' prescribing to elderly patients. The main purpose of the criteria was to serve as quality indicators during an educational intervention: the Prescription Peer Academic Detailing (Rx-PAD) Study, aimed at improving GPs' prescribing for elderly patients.

Primary outcomes

Changes in a set of predefined quality indicators measuring appropriateness of prescriptions for elderly out-patients

Time frame: 1 year

Prescription data for 1 year were retrospectively retrieved from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) and assessed in relation to 13 prescription quality indicators.

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

University of Oslo

Other

Registry information

Official study title

A Cluster Randomized Educational Intervention to Reduce Inappropriate Prescription Patterns for Elderly Patients in General Practice

Important dates

Study start: 2006
Primary completion: 2007
Study completion: 2007
First posted: Jan 24, 2006
Registry last updated: Apr 28, 2010

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