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NCT Number: NCT05416892

What is the Impact of Implementing Pharmaceutical Algorithms in the PharmaClass® Software, on the Handling the Patient's Medication Load, by the Clinical Pharmacist?

The clinical pharmacists present in the hospitalisation units aim to ensure the daily review of the drug prescriptions of hospitalized patients.

In order to optimize their work, the objective of this study would be to provide them with a clinical decision support tool via artificial intelligence in order to improve the patient's medication management. This study will test the Pharmaclass® software.

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Key information

Conditions

Pharmacist-Patient Relations

Age range

75 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Brugmann university hospital

Brussels, 1020, Belgium

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

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

Inclusion criteria

  • Hospitalized patient entering the SU06 or SU13 geriatrics unit of the Paul Brien site of the CHU Brugmann Hospital between November 16 2021 and April 15, 2022
  • Speaking French and/or Dutch
  • With chronic renal failure or taking at least one medicine for diabetes, heart, COPD, asthma, high blood pressure, epilepsy, atrial fibrillation, osteoporosis, high cholesterol, pain, parkinsonism, blood clotting, constipation, thyroid, depression, benign prostatic hypertrophy, gastric ulcer, Alzheimer's disease, cirrhosis as well as for electrolyte disorders (hypo or hypernatremia / potassium / calcium/magnesemia/phosphatemia).

Exclusion criteria

  • Patient who died or was transferred to another care unit during his/her hospitalization

Treatment and study plan

Pharmaclass® software

Other

Clinical decision support tool via artificial intelligence in order to improve the patient's medication management.

Primary outcomes

  1. Time

    Time frame: 5 months

    Time required to perform an intervention (pharmacist versus software)

  2. Dosage compliance

    Time frame: 5 months

    Dosage compliance with existing recommendations and laboratory results/clinical parameters (pharmacist versus software)

  3. Medication error severity

    Time frame: 5 months

    Severity of the medication error that could be avoided (pharmacist versus software)

  4. Geriatrician approval

    Time frame: 5 months

    Number of interventions validated/refused by the geriatrician (pharmacist versus software)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Murielle Surquin

Other

Registry information

Official study title

What is the Impact of Implementing Pharmaceutical Algorithms in the PharmaClass® Software, on the Handling the Patient's Medication Load, by the Clinical Pharmacist? Analysis of These Impacts Within 2 Geriatric Units of the CHU Brugmann Hospital

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2022
Study completion
2022
First posted
Jun 14, 2022
Registry last updated
Jun 14, 2022

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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