Clinical trialNCT04553107CompletedInterventional

Reducing Costs by Deprescribing Medications

SponsorThe University of Texas Health Science Center, HoustonEnrollment419Adverse Drug ReactionDeprescribingPolypharmacy

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Summary

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The purpose of the study is to implement a pharmacist-led deprescribing intervention for adults 65 and older taking 10 or more medications at University of Texas (UT) Physicians clinics and to assess the effect of the pharmacist intervention on the incidence of adverse drug reactions, emergency room visits, and hospitalizations as well as costs to the patient and to the healthcare system in adults 65 and older taking 10 or more medications treated at UT Physicians.

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Investigators

The overall officials registered on this study. Names that resolve to a FindMyKOL profile link to it; the rest are shown as registered.

Holly M Holmes, MD,MS
The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
Principal Investigator
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Sites

1 registered facility, with the per-site recruitment status where the registry publishes one. ClinicalTrials.gov does not publish per-site enrollment counts.

United States

the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Houston, Texas, United States

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Drugs studied

No drug or biological interventions are in our data for this study. It may test a procedure, device or behavioral intervention, or the intervention list isn't in our current snapshot. See the registry record ↗. Why? →

Registration & key dates

Registry attributes as recorded on the ClinicalTrials.gov study record.

Start: 9 Dec 2019
Primary completion: 1 Jun 2022
Completion: 1 Jun 2022
Last update posted: 22 Nov 2022
Registered enrollment: 419
Registry id: NCT04553107

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, via the CTTI AACT database, data as of 4 Nov 2026. Registry facts are shown as registered by the study sponsor; FindMyKOL does not interpret them.