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Effectiveness of an intervention for improving drug prescription in primary care patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: study protocol of a cluster randomized clinical trial (Multi-PAP project…

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Title
Effectiveness of an intervention for improving drug prescription in primary care patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy: study protocol of a cluster randomized clinical trial (Multi-PAP project)
Published in
Implementation Science, April 2017
DOI 10.1186/s13012-017-0584-x
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Alexandra Prados-Torres, Isabel del Cura-González, Daniel Prados-Torres, Juan A. López-Rodríguez, Francisca Leiva-Fernández, Amaia Calderón-Larrañaga, Fernando López-Verde, Luis A. Gimeno-Feliu, Esperanza Escortell-Mayor, Victoria Pico-Soler, Teresa Sanz-Cuesta, Mª Josefa Bujalance-Zafra, Mariel Morey-Montalvo, José Ramón Boxó-Cifuentes, Beatriz Poblador-Plou, José Manuel Fernández-Arquero, Francisca González-Rubio, María D. Ramiro-González, Carlos Coscollar-Santaliestra, Jesús Martín-Fernández, Mª Pilar Barnestein-Fonseca, José María Valderas-Martínez, Alessandra Marengoni, Christiane Muth, Multi-PAP Group

Abstract

Multimorbidity is associated with negative effects both on people's health and on healthcare systems. A key problem linked to multimorbidity is polypharmacy, which in turn is associated with increased risk of partly preventable adverse effects, including mortality. The Ariadne principles describe a model of care based on a thorough assessment of diseases, treatments (and potential interactions), clinical status, context and preferences of patients with multimorbidity, with the aim of prioritizing and sharing realistic treatment goals that guide an individualized management. The aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of a complex intervention that implements the Ariadne principles in a population of young-old patients with multimorbidity and polypharmacy. The intervention seeks to improve the appropriateness of prescribing in primary care (PC), as measured by the medication appropriateness index (MAI) score at 6 and 12 months, as compared with usual care. Design: pragmatic cluster randomized clinical trial. Unit of randomization: family physician (FP). Unit of analysis: patient. PC health centres in three autonomous communities: Aragon, Madrid, and Andalusia (Spain). patients aged 65-74 years with multimorbidity (≥3 chronic diseases) and polypharmacy (≥5 drugs prescribed in ≥3 months). n = 400 (200 per study arm). complex intervention based on the implementation of the Ariadne principles with two components: (1) FP training and (2) FP-patient interview. MAI score, health services use, quality of life (Euroqol 5D-5L), pharmacotherapy and adherence to treatment (Morisky-Green, Haynes-Sackett), and clinical and socio-demographic variables. primary outcome is the difference in MAI score between T0 and T1 and corresponding 95% confidence interval. Adjustment for confounding factors will be performed by multilevel analysis. All analyses will be carried out in accordance with the intention-to-treat principle. It is essential to provide evidence concerning interventions on PC patients with polypharmacy and multimorbidity, conducted in the context of routine clinical practice, and involving young-old patients with significant potential for preventing negative health outcomes. Clinicaltrials.gov, NCT02866799.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 234 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 36 15%
Student > Master 27 11%
Student > Bachelor 27 11%
Other 17 7%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 7%
Other 45 19%
Unknown 67 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 73 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 27 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 18 8%
Psychology 11 5%
Computer Science 5 2%
Other 22 9%
Unknown 79 34%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 8. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 10 April 2018.
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#4,155,667
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Outputs of similar age from Implementation Science
#24
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