Date trial registered
17.10.2018
Incorporation of the first participant
07.01.2019
Recruitment status
Active, not recruiting
Academic title
(Data source: WHO)
Optimizing PharmacoTherapy In the Multimorbid Elderly in Primary CAre: a Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (the OPTICA Trial)
Type of trial
(Data source: WHO)
Interventional
Design of the trial
(Data source: WHO)
Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Health Services Research. Masking: Triple (Participant, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor).
Phase
(Data source: WHO)
N/A
Primary end point
(Data source: WHO)
Patients' medication appropriateness, as measured by two complementary co-primary outcomes: Co-primary outcome #2: change in the Assessment of Underutilization (AOU);Patients' medication appropriateness, as measured by two complementary co-primary outcomes: Co-primary outcome #1: change in the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI)
Secundary end point
(Data source: WHO)
Patient's willingness to deprescribe;Percentage of recommendations rejected by general practitioners (GPs);Percentage of recommendations accepted by general practitioners (GPs);Cost-effectiveness of the STRIPA intervention;Patients' medical costs;Patients' Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs);Survival;Amount of informal care received by patients;Amount of formal care received by patients;Patients' quality of life measured by 5-level version of the European Quality of Life-5 Dimensions questionnaire (EQ-5D), including pain/discomfort.;Patients' falls and fractures;Patients' degree of underprescribing, as measured by the Assessment of Underutilization;Patients' degree of overprescribing, as measured by the Medication Appropriateness Index (MAI);Patients' degree of polypharmacy
Contact information
(Data source: WHO)
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors