Pharmaceutical Care of Ambulatory Elderly Diabetes Patients

Nantou Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Other: Pharmaceutical care; Other: Usual care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01455727

100B4022-100MID-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

This trial will try to perform pharmaceutical care on ambulatory elderly diabetes patients. To provide appropriate diabetes education administration, identify and resolve drug-related problems, assess the appropriateness of their medications, establish the mechanism of medication consultations. Each patient will be assessed by the MMSE(Mini-Mental State Examination) and GDS(Geriatric Depression Scale). The effectiveness of pharmacist's intervention will be assessed by lab data and some questionnaires.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 65 years or older
• A1c greater than or equal to 9.0

Exclusion criteria

• Not expected to live for the duration of the study
• Unwillingness to participate and attend pharmacist visits
• Unwillingness to participate the questionnaires(MMSE, GDS)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Pharmaceutical care

Experimental group

Description:

The Pharmacist provided Pharmaceutical care on the ambulatory elderly Diabetes patients, provided recommendation to the physician and reffered the patients to other diabetes-care-team members, including the CDEs and dietitians.

Treatment:

Other: Pharmaceutical care

Usual care

Active Comparator group

Description:

Patients received usual care directed by their physician.

Treatment:

Other: Usual care