Pharmacist Interventions in Rural Elderly Warfarin Patients

Slaven Falamić

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cardiac Failure; Atrial Fibrillation; Hemorrhage; Thrombosis

Treatments: Other: anticoagulation care

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03212898

SFalamic

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary study goal is to explore the influence of pharmacist interventions on the effectiveness of warfarin treatment in a specific subpopulation.

Enrollment: 131 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age ≥65 years
• Living site of participant outside the city eg. rural site
• Expected duration of warfarin therapy at least 6 months from the inclusion in the study and 3 months before

Exclusion criteria

• Hospitalization
• Vegetarianism
• Patients not able to provide an informed consent
• The use of drug that has an X level of clinical significance of interaction with warfarin according to Lexicomp interact base

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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131 participants in 2 patient groups

Intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Specific pharmacist-led anticoagulation care

Treatment:

Other: anticoagulation care

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group will receive usual care; no interventions will be administered.