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Aims  The Systematic Tool to Reduce Inappropriate Prescribing is a method to assess patient's medication and has been incorporated into a clinical decision support system: STRIP Assistant. Our aim was to evaluate the effect of recommendations generated using STRIP Assistant on appropriate prescribing and mortality in a preoperative setting.    Methods  This cluster‐randomized controlled trial was carried out at the preoperative geriatric outpatient clinic. Residents who performed a comprehensive geriatric assessment were randomized to the control group and intervention group in a 1:1 ratio. Visiting patients aged 70 years or older on 5 or more medications were included. Intervention: prescribing recommendations were generated by a physician using STRIP Assistant and given to the resident. Control group residents performed a medication review according to usual care.  Primary outcome: number of medication changes made because of potential prescribing omissions (PPOs), potentially inappropriate medications (PIMs), and suboptimal dosages according to the prescribing recommendations. Secondary outcome: 3‐month postoperative mortality.    Results  65 intervention and 59 control patients were included, attended by 34 residents. Significantly more medication changes because of PPOs and PIMs were made in the intervention group than in the control group (PPOs 26.2%  vs  3.4%, odds ratio 0.04 [95% confidence interval 0.003–0.46]  P <  .05; PIMS 46.2%  vs  15.3% odds ratio 0.14 [95% confidence interval 0.07–0.57]  P <  .005). There were no differences in dose adjustments or in postoperative mortality.    Conclusion  Prescribing recommendations generated with the help of STRIP Assistant improved appropriate prescribing in a preoperative geriatric outpatient clinic but did not affect postoperative mortality.

british journal of clinical pharmacology

The effect of providing prescribing recommendations on appropriate prescribing: A cluster‐randomized controlled trial in older adults in a preoperative setting