Comparison of Two Pharmacist-led Population Management Approaches to Increase Monitoring of Vitamin B12 and Serum Creatinine Levels for Patients on Metformin

The Ohio State University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anemia; Vitamin B12 Deficiency; Type 2 Diabetes; Neuropathy

Treatments: Behavioral: Electronic Message Intervention; Behavioral: Office visit intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02076347

2013H0307

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to compare two pharmacist-led population management strategies designed to increase the rate of appropriate monitoring of vitamin B12 and serum creatinine for patients taking metformin.

Enrollment: 489 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• On Metformin for at least one year
• Activated patient portal for electronic messaging
• Patient of an attending physician at Ohio State General Internal Medicine
• No serum vitamin B12 and/or no serum creatinine measurement in the past year

Trial design

Primary purpose: Screening

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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489 participants in 2 patient groups

Office visit-based intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Office visit intervention

Electronic message-based intervention

Experimental group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Electronic Message Intervention