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Randomized Controlled Trial
Drug Safety for Nursing-Home Residents - Findings of a Pragmatic, Cluster-Randomized, Controlled Intervention Trial in 44 Nursing Homes.
The safety of drug use by nursing-home residents can be impaired by polypharmacy, potentially inappropriate medications (PIM), and neuroleptics, as well as by a lack of adequate interprofessional coordination in the nursing home. The goal of the HIOPP-3-iTBX Trial was to improve drug safety in nursing-home residents, including a reduction of PIM and/or neu - roleptic use, by means of a complex interprofessional intervention. ⋯ This trial of an intervention to improve drug safety in nursing homes led neither to reduced prescribing of PIM and/or neuroleptic drugs, nor to any improvement in the overall health status of the nursing-home residents.