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Patient-centred Deprescribing of Psychotropic, Sedative and Anticholinergic Medication in Elderly Patients With Polypharmacy
Sponsor: Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich
Summary
The PARTNER study is a multicentre, two-arm, pragmatic cluster-randomised trial evaluating the impact of a focused and patient-centred cooperation between general practitioners (GPs) and community pharmacists (PARTNER intervention) on reductions in the use of psychotropic, sedative and anticholinergic potentially inappropriate medication (PSA-PIM) compared to a control intervention. The PARTNER intervention comprises (1) education for health care professionals, (2) an interprofessional workshop and case conference, (3) a pharmacy visit with brown bag/medication review and patient empowerment, (4) GP practice visit with shared decision making. The control intervention only comprises a pharmacy visit with brown bag review.
Official title: Patient-centred Deprescribing of Psychotropic, Sedative and Anticholinergic Medication in Elderly Patients With Polypharmacy: a Cluster-randomised Trial
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
65 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
352
Start Date
2023-03-25
Completion Date
2026-10
Last Updated
2025-05-04
Healthy Volunteers
No
Conditions
Interventions
PARTNER intervention
The PARTNER intervention includes the following components: 1. Education for health care professionals A) written manual on deprescribing PSA-PIM, which consists of brief information and more detailed explanations; B) access to digital instructional videos/podcasts that address potential problems in deprescribing and provide possible solutions; C) checklist for identification of drug-related problems for pharmacists; D) tapering support tool to facilitate the selection of tapering schemes; E) divisibility list for PSA-PIM to support the implementation of tapering schemes; F) empowerment brochures for patients each focussing on one PSA-PIM subgroup 2. Interprofessional workshop and case conference for GPs and pharmacists 3. Pharmacy visit (brown bag/medication review) including patient empowerment 4. GP practice visit including shared decision making (SDM)
Control intervention
The control intervention only comprises a pharmacy visit with brown bag review.
Locations (3)
University of Bielefeld
Bielefeld, Germany
University Hospital, LMU Munich
Munich, Germany
Witten/Herdecke University
Witten, Germany