Impact of a deprescribing tool on the use of sedative hypnotics among older patients: study protocol for a cluster randomised controlled trial in Swiss primary care (the HYPE trial).

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Benzodiazepines and other sedative hypnotics (BSH) are potentially inappropriate and harmful medications in older people due to their higher susceptibility for adverse drug events. BSH prescription rates are constantly high among elderly patients and even increase with higher age and comorbidity. Deprescribing BSH can be challenging both for healthcare providers and for patients for various reasons. Thus, physicians and patients may benefit from a supportive tool to facilitate BSH deprescribing in primary care consultations. This study intends to explore effectiveness, safety, acceptance and feasibility of such a tool.

Methods and analysis

In this prospective, cluster randomised, controlled, two-arm, double-blinded trial in the ambulatory primary care setting, w

SUBMITTER: Weiss K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10510907 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature