Avtor/Urednik     Cedilnik-Gorup, Eva; Gorup, Savin; Petek Šter, Marija; Rifel, Janez; Klemenc-Ketiš, Zalika
Naslov     The effects of a web application and medical monitoring on the quality of medication, adverse drug events and adherence in the elderly living at home
Tip     članek
Vol. in št.     Letnik 28, št. 6
Leto izdaje     2016
Obseg     str. 432-436
ISSN     1986-597X - Materia socio-medica
Jezik     eng
Abstrakt     Background: In more than half of elderly chronically-ill family clinic attendees, drug prescribing deviates from the internationally acknowledged STOPP/START recommendations. Our study will determine whether it is possible to improve the quality of drug prescriptions in chronically-ill elderly people living at home by regularly monitoring the prescribed drugs according to STOPP/ START criteria. Methods: The project started in 2014 and will run until 2017. Forty general practitioners (GPs) are participating in a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. From the patient register, GPs randomly selected 20 patients older than 65 years who regularly receive at least one drug and invited them to participate in the study. We will use the START/STOPP criteria to determine the (in)adequacy of drug prescribing in the elderly by a web application (WA). Expected Results: The use of the WA will be the basis of the implementation of the final version of the application into the regular family medicine practice, thereby reducing the problems of inappropriate prescribing, correct medication, polypharmacy and adherence; we will identify the stability of the factors of drug prescribing in the elderly. By comparing the test and control groups, it will be possible to distinguish which are related to the WA and which act independently.
Proste vsebinske oznake     polifarmacija
starejši
multi obolevnost
polypharmacy
elderly
multi morbidity