NCT01822171

Discharge Counseling and Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services After Discharge for Heart Failure Patients

Multi-Disciplinary Discharge Counseling and MTM Services After Discharge for Heart Failure Patients

• Status: Terminated
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 1 (actual)
• Sponsor: Providence Health & Services · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Readmission to a hospital shortly after discharge is a common and costly problem. In the United States patients with a diagnosis of heart failure currently experience an elevated 30 day readmission rate of approximately 20%. By providing patients with medication related counseling at discharge by a pharmacist, home medications at discharge, and seeing the patient again in a pharmacist-run Medication Therapy Management (MTM) clinic 7 days after discharge, the study anticipates achieving its primary goal of showing a reduction in the readmission rate. Secondary goals are: 1) to determine patients understanding of the medication they are taking, 2) to evaluate satisfaction with the comprehensive discharge counseling service, and 3) determine the number of interventions made and benefit of the MTM clinic.

Detailed description

The active arm of this study (medication related hospital discharge counseling by a pharmacist, home medications, and 7 day follow-up visit at a pharmacist run MTM clinic) is available to all subjects. To study the primary goal of reducing the 30 day readmission rate the data obtained from the active arm subjects will be compared to a match group of hospitalized patients that were previously discharged with a diagnosis of heart failure. The data for all secondary study goals will be obtained directly from the active arm subjects.

Conditions

• Heart Failure

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Discharge medication counseling from a pharmacist	Patient will be educated about proper dosing instructions, potential side effects, and when to recontact the treating physician office.
OTHER	Home medication if needed	Patient will be provided with medication to take home, when needed.
OTHER	Follow-up visit at Medication Therapy Management clinic	This comprehensive Medication Therapy Management clinic follow-up visit is scheduled for 7 days post hospital discharge. The approximately 1 hour visit is scheduled with a pharmacist to review current drug therapy and make recommendations, if needed, to improve medication utilization.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-01-01
• Primary completion: 2013-05-01
• Completion: 2013-05-01
• First posted: 2013-04-02
• Last updated: 2013-05-22

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: United States