Active clinical trials for "Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions"

The investigators will link MedSafer (a Canadian-made electronic tool) with a large multi-national electronic medical record (EMR), MED e-care, through an existing application programming interface (API) that provides clinicians with electronic, patient-specific deprescribing reports. They will implement a highly scalable deprescribing intervention in a staged and controlled fashion across five Canadian Aged Care Facilities. The investigators aim to test the feasibility of the API for the purposes of generating real time automated deprescribing reports, displayed to the user in the EMR.

This study will evaluate the safety and effectiveness of melatonin for the prevention of antibiotic associated acute kidney injury in hospitalized patients.

Background: The choice of appropriate anesthetics is essential to protect brain function, decrease perioperative complications, and provide high-quality care, and better quality of life. Objectives: To compare the efficacy and safety of propofol versus sevoflurane in patients undergoing elective, non-cardiac operations under general anesthesia. Methods: This was a randomized (1:1), parallel, phase four clinical trial; carried out on 44 patients, who were candidates for elective, non-cardiac operations under general anesthesia at our hospital. Patients were randomly allocated into two equal groups in which anesthesia was maintained with propofol infusion in group P and sevoflurane inhalation in group S.

This study is a randomized, open, parallel controlled clinical trial. The main purpose of this study was to compare the changes in body weight/body mass index (BMI) before and after treatment between the two groups of patients with NST full-course nutritional management and without NST full-course nutritional management. The secondary objective was to compare the quality of life, nutritional status, immune function and inflammatory response, adverse reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy, and short-term/long-term efficacy between the two groups. The treatment plan was: esophageal cancer with routine nutrition guidance as the control group, and the NST whole-process intervention guidance as the experimental group. 1. Experimental group: NST whole-course intervention Nutritionists formulate nutritional programs and manage them in a refined manner. On the basis of the patient's natural diet (food and homogenate meal), enteral nutritional preparations or parenteral nutritional supplements are given according to the patient's gastrointestinal obstruction, dietary structure, and food intake. Energy 30-35kcal/kg/d, protein 1.2-1.5g/kg/d. Enteral nutrition administration route: oral or tube feeding or ostomy, oral feeding is preferred; severe obstruction of eating or oral can not meet the target nutrition, choose tube feeding or ostomy. When it is expected that enteral nutrition cannot meet 60% of the target energy requirement for 3 to 5 days, choose parenteral nutrition. The enteral nutritional preparation adopts the whole protein enteral nutritional preparation Nengquan, and/or the tumor nutritional preparation Ruineng, and/or whey protein powder. Radiotherapy Chemotherapy 2. Control group: routine nutrition guidance for esophageal cancer (1) Nutritional therapy: The nutritional program was the same as that of the experimental group, and the patients performed it themselves. (2) Concurrent chemoradiotherapy: the same as the experimental group. Efficacy evaluation: Body weight and body mass index (BMI) Quality of life score (EORTCQLQ-C30) Nutritional status Immune function and inflammatory response (total lymphocytes, CRP, IL-6) (4) Intestinal mucosal barrier and intestinal flora (5) Adverse reactions of radiotherapy and chemotherapy (6) Short-term/long-term efficacy (5) Evaluation of treatment side effects (6) Short-term/long-term efficacy

A randomized controlled trial will be performed in geriatric inpatients to investigate the impact of a multifaceted clinical pharmacy intervention on health related outcomes.

The aim of this ex-vivo study is to quantify the effect of tramadol on platelet aggregation.

Prescribing of potentially unsafe medications for older adults is extremely common; benzodiazepines and sedative hypnotics are, for example, key drug classes frequently implicated in adverse health consequences for vulnerable older adults, such as confusion or sedation, leading to hospitalizations, falls, and fractures. Fortunately, most of these consequences are preventable. Physicians' lack of awareness of alternatives, ambiguous practice guidelines, and perceived pressure from patients or caregivers are among the reasons why these drugs are used more than might be optimal. Reducing inappropriate use of these drugs may be achieved through decision support tools for providers that are embedded in electronic health record (EHR) systems. While EHR strategies are widely used to support the informational needs of providers, these tools have demonstrated only modest effectiveness at improving prescribing. The effectiveness of these tools could be enhanced by leveraging principles of behavioral economics and related sciences.

The term sexual (SD) dysfunction covers conditions that prevent people from having a satisfactory sex life. SD is a frequent and sometimes debilitating complication of mental illness and a known adverse reaction to psycho-pharmacological treatment. SD is also associated with diabetes, a common somatic comorbidity in psychiatric patients. SD is associated with both reduced quality-of-life and reduced treatment adherence, yet SD is far too rarely addressed between the patient and the healthcare professional in clinical consultations. The purpose of the study is to investigate whether targeted education of patients with schizophrenia and diabetes/prediabetes and/or their healthcare professionals in causes and management of SD: Increases the number of systematic examinations of sexual side effects, Causes changes in the psycho-pharmacological treatment, and Reduces the severity or perception of sexual side effects. The study is a multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) with four arms, in which the educational intervention is provided to patients, healthcare professionals, or both groups. The effect of the educational intervention is compared to a non-educated control group. The study is expected to include 192 patients recruited from 16 assertive community treatment centers evenly distributed in four Danish regions. The study is part of an interdisciplinary project named SECRET. The educational intervention was developed in an ethnographic pre-study incorporating stakeholder engagement. Parallel to the present RCT, an ethnographic field study will be carried out to broaden the perspective on the effects of the intervention.

Optimizing OTC labels for older adults: Empirical evaluation of labels designed to provide older users the information they need to to minimize adverse drug events

The purpose of this study is to examine the hypothesize that 4 weeks of sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) inhibition (oral clonidine) will cause a significant reduction in circulating blood concentrations and endothelial cell expression of inflammatory markers (e.g., TNF-α, IL-6). Our study is a prospective study using a randomized, double-blinded design to test 4 weeks of SNA blockade (oral clonidine) compared with a BP-lowering control condition (diuretic, hydrochlorothiazide) or a placebo.