Effect of medicines management versus standard care on readmissions in multimorbid patients: a randomised controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To investigate the effect of pharmacist-led medicines management in multimorbid, hospitalised patients on long-term hospital readmissions and survival.

Design

Parallel-group, randomised controlled trial.

Setting

Recruitment from an internal medicine hospital ward in Oslo, Norway. Patients were enrolled consecutively from August 2014 to the predetermined target number of 400 patients. The last participant was enrolled March 2016. Follow-up until 31 December 2017, that is, 21-40 months.

Participants

Acutely admitted multimorbid patients ≥18 years, using minimum four regular drugs from minimum two therapeutic classes. 399 patients were randomly assigned, 1:1, to the intervention or control group. After excluding 11 patients dying in-hospital and 2 errone

SUBMITTER: Lea M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7778779 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature