Evaluating Ways to Improve Medication Use Among People With Osteoporosis

Completed · Phase 3

Conditions studied: Osteoporosis

In brief

Osteoporosis is a common bone disease in older adults in which the bones become weaker and prone to fracture. Medications are available to slow or even stop disease progression. However, very few adults who are prescribed osteoporosis medications actually follow through with filling their prescriptions and taking the medications. Ways to improve medication use have not been well developed or adequately tested. The purpose of this study is to evaluate a telephone coaching program, with or without helpful adherence notifications to doctors, in improving treatment adherence in older adults who are starting an osteoporosis medication.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00567294

Run by

Brigham and Women's Hospital

People needed

2087

Starts

2007-11-01

Expected to finish

2011-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-05-15

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients enrolled in the Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) program at the Pennsylvania Department of Aging who begin taking a medication for osteoporosis

You may not qualify if…

• Unable to communicate over the telephone with health educators

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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