Institute of Primary Health Care (BIHAM)

Research-Projects

OPERAM

Optimising therapy to prevent avoidable hospital admissions in the multimorbid elderly

Research question

The objective of this Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) is to evaluate whether the Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing (STRIP) including STRIP assistant (STRIPA) implemented by an appropriately qualified team will lead to an improvement in clinical and economic outcomes among patients aged 70 years and more with multimorbidity and polypharmacy.

Overview

Project leader	Prof. Dr. med. Nicolas Rodondi, BIHAM
Project team	Dr. med. Martin Feller, BIHAM Stefanie Hossmann, CTU Bern Nathalie Schwab, University Hospital Bern
Partner(s)	Prof. Dr. med. Sven Streit, BIHAM PD Dr. med. Sven Trelle, CTU Bern Petra Zalud, TP21 GMBH Prof. Matthias Schwenkglenks, University of Basel Dr. Dimitris Mavridis, Panepistimio Ioanninon Dr. Anne Rutjes, Universita degli Studi Gabriele D’Annuzio di Chieti-Pescara
Local principal investigator(s)	Prof. Dr. med. Nicolas Rodondi, University Hospital Bern Prof. Dr. Anne Spinewine, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc Prof. Dr. med. Denis O’ Mahony, Cork University Hospital Dr. Wilma Knol, Universitair Medisch Centrum Utrecht
Study design	Cluster randomized controlled trial
Study start	May 2016
Funder(s)	This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 634238, and is supported by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI) under contract number 15.0137.
External link	http://operam-2020.eu/index.php?id=1488