NCT04744584

Medication Reconciliation in Pulmonary Hypertension

Optimizing Drug Management of Patients Suffering From Rare Disease Through Medication Reconciliation: Proof of Concept in Pulmonary Hypertension

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 129 (actual)
• Sponsor: Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a life threatening condition. In PH, pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and chronic thrombo-embolic chronic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) are two rare diseases requiring specific and complex drug management. In France ,a part of these treatments ,only available in hospital pharmacies, are generally unknown from community health care professionals despite the high risk of drug-interactions and side effects. Anticipating medication errors at the begging of the disease is therefore important, and could be done through medication reconciliation.

Detailed description

Medication reconciliation (MR) will be done for patients hospitalized in the French referral center for PH for PAH or CTEPH. Detected medication errors will be tracked and fixed by the physician before the end of hospitalization. A synthesis of new/stopped and modified treatments will be given to the patient as well as his related healthcare professionals (community pharmacist and general practioner) to ensure the maintaining of the new therapeutic management and the understanding of drugs modification. To compare the potential decrease of medication errors promoted by MR, a retrospective MR will be also done for patients without MR at 1st hospitalization but at the next one (3 to 12 months after).

Conditions

• Pulmonary Hypertension
• Pulmonary Hypertension Chronic Thromboembolic
• Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Medication reconciliation	MR will be performed directly upon entering the patient's hospital for a first PAH or HTP-Thrombo embolic assessment, just after inclusion. Information regarding the treatments taken by the patient at the time of admission will be retrieved. The entry medication assessment will then be compared with the first medical prescription in order to identify whether medications have been forgotten, prescribed at a different dosage or prescribed when not indicated, etc. All of these differences will be considered medication errors if the reason for the discrepancy is not entered in the patient medical file.
OTHER	Medication reconciliation	After inclusion of the patient, the MR will be carried out retrospectively, that is to say that the information concerning the treatments taken by the patient at the time of the first assessment will be retrieved during the period of the first reassessment (therefore with a delay of 12 months depending on the deadline for the first assessment). All these discrepancies will be considered medication errors if the reason for the discrepancy was not entered in the patient's computerized medical record (IMR).

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-02-16
• Primary completion: 2024-06-15
• Completion: 2024-06-15
• First posted: 2021-02-09
• Last updated: 2024-07-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France