NCT01978925

Pharmaceutical Care in Emergency Department

Effectiveness Pharmaceutical Care at Discharge in the Emergency Department: a Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 380 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hospital Moinhos de Vento · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of pharmaceutical care, compared to usual care, in patient discharge in an emergency department in patients with hypertension and/or diabetes mellitus type 2.

Detailed description

This is a randomized controlled, single-center study, with blinding of outcome assessors. A pilot study with ten patients was previously conducted in order to test study logistics and data collection instruments. Participants will be recruited from a public ED at Restinga district in Porto Alegre, southern Brazil.

Conditions

• Medication Adherence
• Hypertension
• Diabetes Mellitus

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pharmaceutical care	The clinical pharmacist will provide a structured 30-minute intervention for enhancing their medication adherence. The recommendations include: discussion on hypertension and/or diabetes, risk of complications, prescribed drug therapy, correct use of medications and proper dosage, possible adverse effects, route of administration, schedule of administration and correct storage. The pharmacist will also emphasize the importance of lifestyle modifications. Printed educational material, with information on hypertension and/ or diabetes medications, including suggested lifestyle interventions was prepared to assist in the intervention and will be handed to patients in the end of the session.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-12-01
• Completion: 2014-12-01
• First posted: 2013-11-08
• Last updated: 2015-05-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil