Recruiting

Observational Study

Sponsor:

Bruyere Research Institute

Code:

NCT02523482

Conditions

Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP)

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 66+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Study Details

Brief summary:

The study objectives are: to validate the subsets of Screening Tool of Older People's Prescriptions (STOPP) and Screening Tool to Alert Right Treatment (START), or STOPP/START criteria, and Beers criteria applicable to HAD by comparing their performance when applied to clinical and HAD for the same patients, and, using clinical data, to compare the performance of the full STOPP/START and full Beers criteria with each other.

Conditions

Potentially Inappropriate Prescribing (PIP)

Study ID

NCT02523482

Start date

Jun, 2014

Status verified date

Aug, 2015

Completion date

Mar, 2016

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Mar, 2016

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 66+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • OHIP-eligible resident aged 66 and over at the time of admission to long-term care in Ottawa
  • Newly admitted to LTC or convalescent care at the participating care facilities
  • Consent to participate

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Residents will be excluded if they decline to participate in the study.
  • Residents will be excluded if they do not have a valid Ontario Health Insurance Plan (OHIP) number.
  • Residents residing in Ontario whose health care is covered through other plans, and are therefore not captured through ICES data, such as First Nations people living on reserve, members of the Armed Forces, and refugee claimants, will also be excluded.
  • A resident will also be excluded if he or she has no prescribed medications.

Study Design

Enrollment

275 participants

Anticipated

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Primary outcome measure

  • Validation of STOPP/START and Beers criteria by comparing their use in health administrative data and clinical data [ Time Frame: Participants will be observed retrospectively from Admission to Long Term Care facility to one year prior to admission to LTC ]
  • Comparison of STOPP/START and Beers criteria [ Time Frame: Participants will be observed retrospectively from Admission to Long Term Care facility to one year prior to admission to LTC ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Lise M Bjerre, MD, PhD

613-562-6262lbjerre@bruyere.org

Cody D Black, BSc

613-562-6262cblack@bruyere.org

Locations

Residence St. Louis

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1C 3B1

Principal Investigator:

Lise Bjerre, MD, PhD

Centre d'accueil Champlain

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1L 5C6

Principal Investigator:

Lise Bjerre, MD, PhD

Residence Elisabeth Bruyere

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 5C8

Principal Investigator:

Lise Bjerre, MD, PhD

Garry J Armstrong

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 5M2

Principal Investigator:

Lise Bjerre, MD, PhD

Carleton Lodge

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2C 3H1

Principal Investigator:

Lise Bjerre, MD, PhD

Peter D Clark

Recruiting

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K2G 6P8

Principal Investigator:

Lise Bjerre, MD, PhD

More Information

Sponsor

Bruyere Research Institute

Last update posted

Aug 14, 2015

Last verified

Aug, 2015

Keywords

  • Prescriptions
  • Epidemiology
  • STOPP/START Criteria
  • Beers Criteria

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Bruyere Research Institute on 2015-08-14.