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. 2020 May 8;2020(5):CD012419. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD012419.pub2

Ahmad 2010.

Methods RCT
Participants Inclusion: patients older than 60 years; using 5 or more prescription‐only chronically used drugs when admitted to the hospital; discharged from the department of cardiovascular disease, lung disease, or internal medicine
Exclusion: discharged to nursing home, too confused to participate, terminally ill, unable to communicate in Dutch
Interventions Intervention: systematic medication review by community pharmacists. Pharmacy technicians will counsel patients at home at baseline and at 1, 3, 6, 9, and 12 months, using cognitive‐behavioural therapy according to the theory of planned behaviour
Control: usual care
Outcomes Persistence of drug adherence, quality of life, re‐hospitalisation related to medicines and cost adherence, occurrence of drug‐related problems, attitudes toward drugs
Notes NTR1194
Protocol published 2010. Baseline (qualitative) published 2012. Conference abstract 2017
Investigator contacted for follow‐up adherence data ‐ no response