Pharmacist Follow-up, a Qualitative Study of Patient Experience

June 25, 2020 updated by: Beate Hennie Garcia, PhD, Hospital Pharmacy of North Norway Trust

Pharmacist Follow-up of Patients With Coronary Heart Disease. A Qualitative Study of Patient Experience.

A pharmacist follow-up procedure is under development. Patients with coronary heart disease (CHD) is being followed up by a pharmacist for one year with three meetings; at discharge from hospital, after three months and after one year. The evaluation is basically based on quantitative measures as achievement of therapeutic goals, number of drug related problems detected, hospitalisations etc. However, the patients' own experience with the follow-up procedure cannot be evaluated using these measures. Thus, a qualitative approach is needed. In this study, a total of four patients participating in the follow-up will be included and interviewed. A semistructured interview guide will be used. Interviews will be taped, transcribed and analyzed with the intention to explore how patients experience the follow-up from the pharmacist. A thoruough content analysis will be performed. Patients included must have met the pharmacist at least twice. The pharmacist in charge of the follow-up will recruit patients and hand out study information. Patients will reply to the principal investigator of the study and thus kept anonymous for the pharmacist in charge of the follow-up. No pressure will be put on the patients to join, but it will be emphasized that it will help evaluating the procedure.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Detailed Description

See full publication on http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/7/197 Garcia et al. BMC Research Notes 2014, 7:197

Study Type

Observational

Enrollment (Actual)

4

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • Norway
      • Tromso, Norway, 9037
        • University of Tromsoe

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 80 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Sampling Method

Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Patients included in the study "Pharmacist follow-up of patients with CHD".

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • must have met the pharmacist at least twice
  • living within the area of Tromsoe city so that interviews are possible

Exclusion Criteria

  • none as patients are already enrolled in another study

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort
Study group
Patients who are included in the pharmacist follow-up procedure

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Qualitative evaluation of the impact of pharmacist follow-up via interviews with the participating patients
Time Frame: 3 months or 1 year
In the pharmacist follow-up procedure under development, patients have individual "consultations" with a pharmacist three times. Patients are recruited to this study at the second or third consultation. Interviews will be performed with patients included to explore how patients' experience this follow-up procedure. Outcome measures from patient interviews can be counted. In qualitative research, the content of the interviews are thoroughly analysed with focus on the meaning of the informant's/interviewee's sayings. Outcomes will be presented as overall themes touched by the informants.
3 months or 1 year

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Hospital Pharmacy of North Norway Trust

Collaborators

University of Tromso

Investigators

  • Principal Investigator: Lars Smaabrekke, PhD, University of Tromso
  • Study Chair: Beate H Garcia, PhD, Hospital Pharmacy of North Norway Trust

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Helpful Links

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

February 1, 2010

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2010

Study Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

April 30, 2010

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 26, 2010

First Posted (Estimate)

May 27, 2010

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

June 29, 2020

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 25, 2020

Last Verified

June 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • SHAN-002

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