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Electronic Pharmacotherapy Risk Management

NCT00828490 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 174000

Last updated 2010-03-23

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of the Utah ePRM (electronic Pharmacotherapy Risk Management) project is to improve quality and safety of medication use while simultaneously controlling costs and detecting fraud and abuse.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

provider feedback

The provider-level intervention includes a targeted review of trigger-flagged beneficiaries' drug utilization history and an information packet sent to providers which includes patient-specific pharmacy and medical claims history, patient specific recommendations, and provider comparative profiling.

BEHAVIORAL

patient intervention

The patient intervention arm includes the provider-level intervention mentioned above in addition to Medication Therapy Management Services (MTMS), a program that provides patients one-on-one therapy counseling administered by community pharmacists who have completed an MTMS certificate program.

BEHAVIORAL

Process-level

The process-level intervention includes the provider-level intervention plus in-clinic evidence-based quality improvement workshops with opportunity for CME credit

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Jonathan R Nebeker, M.D., M.S. · VASLCHCS

  • Gary Oderda, PharmD, M.P.H. · University of Utah

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-07-31
Primary Completion
2010-03-31
Completion
2010-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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