Status:
ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Pharmacist Intervention to Reduce Post-Hospitalization Utilization
Lead Sponsor:
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Collaborating Sponsors:
National Institute on Aging (NIA)
Conditions:
Nonadherence, Patient
Polypharmacy
Eligibility:
All Genders
55+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This is a randomized trial testing a peri- and post-discharge pharmacist-led medication management intervention on post-discharge utilization, including both readmissions and emergency department visi...
Detailed Description
There are three components to this study: (1) the prospective, randomized, controlled trial (RCT), which includes a pharmacist-led hospital discharge care intervention, (2) the qualitative study, whic...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Admitted to a medical ward, AND
- \> 55 years AND
- ≥ 10 prescription medications at admission
- OR
- • ≥ 3 high-risk medications (anticoagulants, antiplatelets, insulin, oral hypoglycemics) at admission
Exclusion
- Expected discharge to another state, acute care facility, psychiatric facility, or locked facility (including locked skilled nursing facility, jail, or prison) OR
- Expected AMA or left hospital against medical advice (AMA) OR
- Homeless OR
- On hospice OR
- Already enrolled into study within the past year OR
- Patients admitted by admitting or attending Primary Medical Doctors who have a specialty that is not Internal Medicine or Family Medicine OR
- Expected to receive pharmacist-led peri- and post-discharge medication management regardless of the trial OR
- Expected post-discharge setting not conducive to the studied medication management intervention (e.g. SNF, rehabilitation facility) OR
- Patients admitted with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 23 2019
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 15 2026
Estimated Enrollment :
6478 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT04071951
Start Date
December 23 2019
End Date
January 15 2026
Last Update
January 8 2026
Active Locations (2)
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1
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Los Angeles, California, United States, 90048
2
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 02115