Pharmacists Management of Diabetes

Advantage Health Physician Network

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 4

Conditions: Diabetes Mellitus

Treatments: Other: Usual care; Other: Pharmacist Management

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00869076

PharmacistDiabetesJameson

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis is that patients with poorly controlled diabetes would have greater improvement in their blood sugar control when managed by a clinical pharmacist than when managed with usual medical care. Patients with poor control are randomized to pharmacist management or to usual medical care for one year.

Enrollment: 102 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age 18 years or older
• A1c greater than or equal to 9.0

Exclusion criteria

• Not expected to live for the duration of the study
• Managed by an endocrinologist
• Unwillingness to participate and attend pharmacist visits

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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102 participants in 2 patient groups

Pharmacist Management

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm the Pharmacist managed the Diabetes in collaboration with the primary care physician

Treatment:

Other: Pharmacist Management

Usual Care

Active Comparator group

Description:

The patient was managed by the primary care physician

Treatment:

Other: Usual care