233 OPERAM: cluster randomised controlled trial Table 2. STRIP recommendations per patient. Overall (N = 916) Mean (SD) Min - Max N (%) RECOMMENDATIONS BY THE STRIP METHOD Number of recommendations per patient 2.75 (2.24) 0 - 19 Number of patients with at least one recommendation 789 (86.1%) Number of STOPP recommendations per patient 1.79 (1.89) 0 - 18 Number of patients with at least one STOPP recommendation 665 (72.6%) Number of START recommendations per patient 0.95 (1.17) 0 - 7 Number of patients with at least one START recommendation 497 (54.3%) RECOMMENDATIONS IMPLEMENTED AT 2 MONTHS Number of implemented recommendations per patient 1.16 (1.48) 0 - 12 Number of patients with at least one implemented recommendation 491 (62.2%)1 Number of implemented STOPP recommendations per patient 0.93 (1.35) 0 - 12 Number of implemented START recommendations per patient 0.22 (0.54) 0 - 4 The Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing (STRIP) is an optimization process for drug review that implements STOPP/START (Screening Tool of older People’s Prescriptions/ Screening Tool to Alert to right treatment) criteria and implicit drug appropriateness assessment methods to increase appropriate prescribing for older people. This table presents the number of the accepted STRIP recommendations and accepted START criteria and STOPP criteria recommendations per patient as well as their implementation at 2 months (i.e. 61 days) after enrolment. In case of death, loss to follow-up or withdrawal before 61 days, information on the implementation of the recommendation was judged as missing. In total, 2,331 recommendations were made, of which 1,524 (65.4%) were STOPP recommendations, and 807 (34.6%) were START recommendations. 1 The denominator is 789 patients with at least one recommendation, excluding the patients without recommendations. Missing data: Number of implemented recommendations per patient: 57 (6.2%); number of patient with at least one implemented recommendation: 57 (6.2%); number of implemented STOPP recommendations per patient: 47 (5.1%); number of implemented START recommendations per patient: 38 (4.1%) Abbreviations: Max, maximum; Min, minimum; N, number; SD, standard deviation 3
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