Randomised controlled trials on interventions to improve the use of medications in older adults: achievements, challenges and lessons learned

Randomised controlled trials on interventions to improve the use of medications in older adults: achievements, challenges and lessons learned

Randomised controlled trials represent a strong opportunity to evaluate the effect of different approaches to increase the quality of use of medications. The knowledge generated can then inform decisions taken at different levels of the health care system. Yet developing,  conducting and maximising the impact of such trials remains challenging. In this session Anne Spinewine will share her experience from several RCTs of complex interventions to improve the use of medications in older adults in which she was involved, with the objective to share lessons learned on methodological, implementation and dissemination aspects.

Presenter: Anne Spinewine

Anne Spinewine is a clinical pharmacist and professor in clinical pharmacy in Belgium. She works part-time as a professor at the Université catholique de Louvain (Brussels) and part-time as the head of the clinical pharmacy service at an affiliated teaching hospital (CHU UCL Namur, Godinne). She teaches pharmacotherapy and evidence-based medicine and she leads the hospital pharmacy residency programme as well as a CPD program for community pharmacists. Her research focuses on the evaluation of the quality of use of medications in clinical practice and of the effect of several approaches for improvement, with a specific interest around appropriate prescribing in older adults. 

Discussant: Wade Thompson

Dr. Wade Thompson is an Assistant Professor; Department of Anesthesiology, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics; Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia.