Medication Use and deprescribing in older patients at the end of life
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Medication use and deprescribing among older patients approaching the end of life in the hospice setting
IRAS ID
263111
Contact name
Carole Parsons
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
Queen's University Belfast
Duration of Study in the UK
0 years, 9 months, 31 days
Research summary
This study will be conducted in four hospices in Northern Ireland. The primary goal of this study is to identify the patterns of prescribing and deprescribing (where medicines are stopped) in older patients in the last fourteen days of life in the hospice setting and to determine the prevalence of potentially inappropriate prescribing among older patients in their last days of life. Data will be collected from the medical and prescription records for people aged 65 years and over who were admitted to hospice and died between 1st January and 31st December 2018. These data will include demographic data and information on medications prescribed and stopped during the last 14 days of life. We will then apply two sets of criteria for medication appropriateness, the STOPPFrail criteria and criteria developed by Morin et al. (2018) to the prescribing data selected to detect the presence of potentially inappropriate prescribing.
REC name
HSC REC B
REC reference
19/NI/0114
Date of REC Opinion
8 Jul 2019
REC opinion
Further Information Favourable Opinion