Proximity Work in Family Medicine Groups : the Impact of Pharmacists (FMG)

Laval University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Health Services

Treatments: Other: Pharmacist clinical intervention

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02963636

106238

Details and patient eligibility

About

The project objective is to evaluate the impact of the recent addition of pharmacists within family medicine groups (FMGs) on organizational and clinical parameters. The process by which changes occur and the level of pharmacists' activities will also be assessed. The ultimate goal of the project is the development of an accompanying guide to facilitate the work of the pharmacist in monitoring complex patients in primary care medical clinics.

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Willing to meet with the pharmacist and;
• Consuming drugs of four or more different pharmacological classes or having to take at least four doses per day and;
• aged 70 or over with at least two criteria of vulnerability or aged less than 70 with at least 3 criteria of vulnerability or had a recent loss of autonomy or in post- hospitalization with medication changes in the hospital.

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Health Services Research

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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62 participants in 1 patient group

Pharmacist clinical intervention

Experimental group

Description:

Patients exposed to the pharmacist intervention

Treatment:

Other: Pharmacist clinical intervention