- ICH GCP
- US Clinical Trials Registry
- Clinical Trial NCT00513903
Expanding the Role of Pharmacists in Treating Persons With Cardiovascular or Lung Diseases (IowaCOC)
Enhanced Continuity of Pharmacy Care for Cardiovascular or Pulmonary Diseases
Study Overview
Status
Conditions
Intervention / Treatment
Detailed Description
Drugs used to treat cardiovascular and lung diseases are the most frequent cause of hospitalizations and emergency department visits related to inadequate therapy or ADEs. ADEs occur in 25% of patients who are able to walk and may cause up to 17% of hospital admissions among the elderly. A lack of communication and coordination between the hospital setting and the patient's own community setting, upon patient discharge, may contribute to the high number of ADEs. By expanding the role of pharmacists and encouraging communication between hospitals and pharmacists, the number of ADEs may be reduced. There have been a few small studies that have examined the way patient information is transferred between hospital and community pharmacists, but these studies did not involve the patients' primary care physicians nor did they fully evaluate the effect of communication between hospital and community pharmacists. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of providing a pharmacist case manager to hospitalized patients with cardiovascular or lung disease at reducing the number of ADEs, re-hospitalizations, and unscheduled medical visits.
This study will enroll individuals with certain conditions or diseases who are admitted to the hospital. Participants will be randomly assigned to either a control group, a minimal treatment group, or an enhanced treatment group. Participants in the minimal and enhanced treatment groups will meet with a pharmacist case manager while in the hospital to conduct a medication history review. The case manager will also meet with participants at the time of hospital discharge and provide them with a discharge summary and educational materials. Additionally, for participants in the enhanced treatment group, the case manager will do the following: transfer the discharge summary data to the participant's community physician and pharmacist; call the participant 3 to 5 days following discharge from the hospital and as needed thereafter to resolve medication problems; and communicate with and make recommendations to the participant's community physician and pharmacist. All participants will meet with a study research nurse immediately after study entry to complete questionnaires. Study nurses will also call all participants 30 and 90 days following hospital discharge to collect adverse event information. Surveys will be completed by each participant's pharmacist and primary care physician 90 days following the participant's discharge from the hospital.
Study Type
Enrollment (Actual)
Phase
- Phase 3
Contacts and Locations
Study Locations
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Iowa
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Iowa City, Iowa, United States, 52242
- The University of Iowa
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Participation Criteria
Eligibility Criteria
Ages Eligible for Study
Accepts Healthy Volunteers
Genders Eligible for Study
Description
Inclusion Criteria:
- Speaks either English or Spanish
- Willing to obtain all long-term prescriptions from one community pharmacy during the 90-day study period
- Diagnosed with at least one of the following conditions: high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, coronary artery disease, heart attack, stroke, transient ischemic attack, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, or receiving oral anticoagulation therapy
- Admitted to the general medicine, family medicine, cardiology, or orthopedics services hospital department
Exclusion Criteria:
- Does not have a working telephone
- Has a hearing impairment that does not allow the use of a telephone
- Enrolled in Iowa Care (i.e., individual has no community physician or community pharmacist following hospital discharge)
- Life expectancy estimated at less than 6 months at the time of study entry
- Dementia or cognitive impairment
- Severe psychiatric or psychosocial factors, including substance abuse, that may impair the desire or ability to complete all aspects of the study
- Admission to the psychiatric, surgery, or hematology/oncology services hospital department
Study Plan
How is the study designed?
Design Details
- Primary Purpose: Prevention
- Allocation: Randomized
- Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
- Masking: None (Open Label)
Arms and Interventions
Participant Group / Arm |
Intervention / Treatment |
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Active Comparator: Minimal intervention
Minimal intervention group patients will be seen by a clinical pharmacist in the hospital but will not receive followup after hospital discharge.
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Minimal intervention patients will be seen by a clinical pharmacist during the hospitalization period to improve continuity of pharmacy care following hospital discharge.
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Experimental: Enhanced intervention
Enhanced intervention patients will receive care from a clinical pharmacist during hospitalization and followup by phone after hospitalization.
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Enhanced intervention patients will be visited in the hospital and will also be called by the clinical pharmacist following discharge to follow-up on any problems that might have developed after discharge.
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No Intervention: Control
Control arm patients will not be seen by the clinical pharmacist.
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What is the study measuring?
Primary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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ADEs
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Medication appropriateness
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge by the Hanlon et al. Medication Appropriateness Index
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge by the Hanlon et al. Medication Appropriateness Index
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Complications related to medications, including the number of hospital readmissions, unscheduled visits to emergency departments or urgent care facilities, and physician visits related to a medication problem or ADE
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Cost-effectiveness of the minimal or enhanced treatment compared to usual care
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Secondary Outcome Measures
Outcome Measure |
Time Frame |
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Number of medications
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Complete medication list
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Community physician and pharmacist surveys
Time Frame: Measured 90 days after participant's hospital discharge
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Measured 90 days after participant's hospital discharge
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Medication adherence
Time Frame: Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Measured 30 and 90 days after hospital discharge
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Barriers to patient adherence
Time Frame: Measured at baseline by scores on the following questionnaires: self-efficacy, cognitive impairment (Pfeiffer Mental Status Questionnaire), medication management skills and the Katz index of activities of daily living
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Measured at baseline by scores on the following questionnaires: self-efficacy, cognitive impairment (Pfeiffer Mental Status Questionnaire), medication management skills and the Katz index of activities of daily living
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Collaborators and Investigators
Sponsor
Collaborators
Investigators
- Principal Investigator: Barry L. Carter, PharmD, University of Iowa
Publications and helpful links
General Publications
- Carter BL, Farris KB, Abramowitz PW, Weetman DB, Kaboli PJ, Dawson JD, James PA, Christensen AJ, Brooks JM. The Iowa Continuity of Care study: Background and methods. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008 Sep 1;65(17):1631-42. doi: 10.2146/ajhp070600.
- Farley TM, Shelsky C, Powell S, Farris KB, Carter BL. Effect of clinical pharmacist intervention on medication discrepancies following hospital discharge. Int J Clin Pharm. 2014 Apr;36(2):430-7. doi: 10.1007/s11096-014-9917-x. Epub 2014 Feb 11.
- Israel EN, Farley TM, Farris KB, Carter BL. Underutilization of cardiovascular medications: effect of a continuity-of-care program. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2013 Sep 15;70(18):1592-600. doi: 10.2146/ajhp120786.
- Anderegg SV, Demik DE, Carter BL, Dawson JD, Farris K, Shelsky C, Kaboli P. Acceptance of recommendations by inpatient pharmacy case managers: unintended consequences of hospitalist and specialist care. Pharmacotherapy. 2013 Jan;33(1):11-21. doi: 10.1002/phar.1164.
- Farris KB, Carter BL, Xu Y, Dawson JD, Shelsky C, Weetman DB, Kaboli PJ, James PA, Christensen AJ, Brooks JM. Effect of a care transition intervention by pharmacists: an RCT. BMC Health Serv Res. 2014 Sep 18;14:406. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-406.
Study record dates
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More Information
Terms related to this study
Additional Relevant MeSH Terms
Other Study ID Numbers
- 498
- R01HL082711 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
- R01HL082711-01A2 (U.S. NIH Grant/Contract)
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