Effectiveness of Pharmaceutical Care on Primary Care Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension (EPHACA)
Effectiveness of a Pharmaceutical Care Program on Primary Care Patients With Uncontrolled Hypertension- A Brazilian Multicenter RCT
研究概览
地位
条件
详细说明
Inclusion and exclusion criteria: Potential hypertensive subjects aged above 18 years and and continuously receiving their medicines from the pharmacy are going to be identified through administrative data sources. They must take at least hydrochlorothiazide, and have no modifications on their hypertensive drug prescription on the last 2 months. Patients who have a serious psychiatric disorder or a severe cognitive impairment, blindness, pregnancy or secondary hypertension will be excluded. To be considered eligible, the patients should have a mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure above 140 mmHg and 90 mmHg at the screening visit if there were no COM morbidities associated, and above 130 mmHg and 80 mmHg for high-risk patients, using the validated Omron Hern-705-CP upper arm automated monitor.
Strategy/process by which participants/centres will be selected and recruited to the trial: Research assistants will invite the potential subjects when they attend the pharmacy to take their medicines or via telephone calls. By this moment, they will confirm eligibility and proceed the BP measures. If eligible for the study, the participant will receive all the trial explanations and the written informed consent will be obtained.
Randomization: The random allocation will be stratified by gender through a computer-generated sequence, individually for each centre. To maintain cancel allocation status, opaque, numbered and sealed envelopes will be adopted.
Interventions: Three different kinds of pharmacist services will be adopted, with growing complexity levels: drug dispensing, counseling and patient follow-up for 8 months. These methods are part of the Brazilian pharmaceutical care agreement, developed on the year of 2002, and will be compared with the pharmacy usual care. Seven pharmacists and 12 students were in charge of the pharmaceutical care program. All of them were trained in a 20 hour-course. Procedures details are written in a manual of operations, willing to standardize the interventions.
Outcomes: The primary outcomes are the BP differences between the one measured at 8-month follow-up and the baseline BP and the adherence, determined by 2 ways: a) measurement of plasma levels of hydrochlorothiazide, measured at the beginning and at the end of the study; b) drugs refill along the 8-months prior the randomization and during the 8-months of the trial. The occurrence of drug-related problems will be evaluated as a secondary outcome.
Blindness: Open-label study. Sample size: The study was design to enroll 304 patients equally distributed within the 4 centers, to provide 80% of statistical power to reject the null hypothesis and an error of 5% (two-tailed). Sampling size was calculated on the basis of a standard deviation of 10 mmHg, powered to detect clinically meaningful differences in mean changes of 5 mmHg between usual care and the intervention arms at 8-months follow-up, considering a 20% of drop-outs. Analyses will be conducted on intention-to-treat basis.
• Statistics: To assess for any differences among the intervention groups, the baseline characteristics will be compared performing Pearson χ2 test for categorical variables and F tests for continuous variables, and Fisher Exact test or Kruskal-Wallis if necessary. For the primary outcomes, the same tests will be applied. Analysis of covariance will be used when necessary.
研究类型
注册 (实际的)
阶段
- 不适用
联系人和位置
学习地点
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Rio Grande do Sul
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Porto Alegre、Rio Grande do Sul、巴西
- Mauro Silveira de Castro
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参与标准
资格标准
适合学习的年龄
接受健康志愿者
有资格学习的性别
描述
Inclusion Criteria:
- Potential hypertensive subjects aged above 18 years and and continuously receiving their medicines from the pharmacy are going to be identified through administrative data sources.
- They must take at least hydrochlorothiazide, and have no modifications on their hypertensive drug prescription on the last 2 months.
- To be considered eligible, the patients should have a mean systolic and diastolic blood pressure above 140 mmHg and 90 mmHg at the screening visit if there were no COM morbidities associated, and above 130 mmHg and 80 mmHg for high-risk patients.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients who have a serious psychiatric disorder or a severe cognitive impairment, blindness, pregnancy or secondary hypertension will be excluded.
学习计划
研究是如何设计的?
设计细节
- 主要用途:卫生服务研究
- 分配:随机化
- 介入模型:并行分配
- 屏蔽:无(打开标签)
武器和干预
参与者组/臂 |
干预/治疗 |
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实验性的:1
Patient follow-up
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Dader method, which was developed to provide pharmaceutical care, which consists of seven steps covering the evaluation of services, benefits of interventions, and identification of unexpected occurrences.
Its objectives are to improve the patient quality of life.
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实验性的:2
Counseling
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The pharmacist proceeds the counseling when the patient comes to the pharmacy to take their medicines.
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实验性的:3
Drug dispensing
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The pharmacist gives the drugs to the patient with the minimum of information necessary to guarantee a safe and effective drug intake.
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有源比较器:4
pharmacy usual care
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The patient receives no information about their medicines in the pharmacy, unless he asks for it.
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研究衡量的是什么?
主要结果指标
结果测量 |
大体时间 |
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Blood pressure
大体时间:8 months
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8 months
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次要结果测量
结果测量 |
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adherence
大体时间:8 months
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8 months
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合作者和调查者
调查人员
- 首席研究员:Mauro Castro, PhD、Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre
研究记录日期
研究主要日期
学习开始
初级完成 (实际的)
研究完成 (实际的)
研究注册日期
首次提交
首先提交符合 QC 标准的
首次发布 (估计)
研究记录更新
最后更新发布 (估计)
上次提交的符合 QC 标准的更新
最后验证
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Patient follow-up的临床试验
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Shannon E. Sauer-ZavalaNational Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)主动,不招人
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Sykehuset i Vestfold HFHospital Pharmacy Enterprise, South Eastern Norway完全的
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University of MichiganNational Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA); Brown University; Pennington Biomedical Research Center; Oregon Research Institute 和其他合作者招聘中
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Mary LacyNational Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK)主动,不招人
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Brigham and Women's HospitalGordon and Betty Moore Foundation完全的
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Oregon Health and Science UniversityTexas A&M University; University of North Carolina, Greensboro主动,不招人