# A Randomized Controlled Trial to Deprescribe for Older Patients With Polypharmacy

> **NCT02979353** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Vanderbilt University Medical Center** · enrollment: 372 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Polypharmacy
- Care Transitions
- Geriatric Syndromes

## Interventions

- **BEHAVIORAL:** Shed-Meds: A Patient-Centered Deprescribing Intervention

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02979353
- **Lead sponsor:** Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2017-03-06
- **Primary completion:** 2021-05-01
- **Final completion:** 2021-05-01
- **Target enrollment:** 372 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2023-07-19

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02979353

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02979353, "A Randomized Controlled Trial to Deprescribe for Older Patients With Polypharmacy". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-07-13 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02979353. Licensed CC0.

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