Pharmacist and Family Medicine Physician Collaboration for Pre-Visit Planning and Team Huddles for CCM Patients

Pharmacist and Family Medicine Physician Collaboration for Pre-Visit Planning and Team Huddles for Patients Receiving Chronic Care Management Services

This is a novel project which incorporates clinic and community pharmacists in three aspects of the Patient-Centered Medical Home: pre-visit planning, pre-visit care team huddles, and chronic care management (CCM). Patients for the project are enrolled in the NEIFPC CCM program and have Greenwood pharmacy as their primary pharmacy. Community and clinic pharmacists will contribute to pre-visit medication reviews and document their drug therapy recommendations in a shared, templated note in the clinic EHR. NEIFPC pharmacists will attend pre-visit team huddles to relay drug therapy recommendations to the physician. Revenue from CCM services will be prorated and shared between Greenwood pharmacy and NEIFPC. The project will last 9 months. Primary aims are to describe the pharmacist pre-visit planning service, summarize the billing experience of a community pharmacist providing this service, and to describe the drug therapy interventions made by pharmacists.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Chronic Conditions, Multiple

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 150

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• United States
  • Iowa
    • Waterloo, Iowa, United States, 50702
      • Northeast Iowa Family Practice

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: Child; Adult; Older Adult
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Medicare patient's who are enrolled in the CCM program at the Northeast Iowa Family Practice Center with Greenwood Pharmacy as their primary pharmacy.

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patient enrolled in Medicare
• Patient enrolled in the Chronic Care Management (CCM) program at the Northeast Iowa Family Practice Center
• Patient's primary pharmacy is Greenwood Pharmacy

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient not enrolled in Medicare
• Patient not enrolled in CCM program
• Patient's primary pharmacy is any pharmacy other than Greenwood Pharmacy

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Summary of Drug Therapy Interventions made by Pharmacists	Summarize drug therapy interventions made by community and ambulatory care pharmacists for pre-visit team huddles with Family Medicine physicians.	07/01/2020- 03/31/2021

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Northeast Iowa Medical Education Foundation

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): August 3, 2020
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): April 30, 2021
• Study Completion (Anticipated): April 30, 2021

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: April 8, 2020
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: April 8, 2020
• First Posted (Actual): April 13, 2020

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): September 1, 2020
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: August 28, 2020
• Last Verified: August 1, 2020

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Disease Attributes; Chronic Disease; Multiple Chronic Conditions
• Other Study ID Numbers: 2020-003

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No