A study evaluating an intervention for doctors and pharmacists working in older people’s medicine wards in hospitals in England, to review and stop medicines no longer needed or where the risk of harm outweighs the benefit

Registered study from ISRCTN registry. Evidence status: source reported.

Organisation

University of Leicester

Published

2023-07-21

Source reference

ISRCTN13248281

Jurisdiction

Not assessed

Licence

ISRCTN registry: metadata CC0, free text CC BY 4.0 (source: ISRCTN, www.isrctn.com). Contact details not imported.

Sponsor: University of Leicester · Interventional study · Funders: National Institute for Health and Care Research · Conditions: Patients who are over 65 and prescribed at least one potentially inappropriate medicine where the likely harms outweigh the benefits. · Found via: Hospital Episode Statistics

Source: https://www.isrctn.com/ISRCTN13248281. Captured 2026-10-29.

Limitations: Registration details as submitted to ISRCTN. Found by a keyword search for Hospital Episode Statistics; the registration does not confirm that the study used that data resource, and no access authorisation is linked. Only registrations from 2019-02-01 are imported, so earlier studies are missing.