MedTrace Logo

Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians to Improve Admission Medication History Accuracy

NCT02026453 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 306

Last updated 2018-02-22

Study results available
· View outcomes & findings →

Summary

We tested two interventions to improve the accuracy of medication histories obtained at hospital admission. The interventions target elderly and chronically ill patients prone to erroneous medication histories and resultant medication errors. For targeted patients, we tested the effect of using pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to obtain an initial medication history. This was studied using a randomized controlled trial of usual care (which involves nurses and physicians) vs usual care + pharmacists vs usual care + pharmacy technicians to obtain an admission medication history.

The overarching hypothesis was that by leveraging pharmacists and pharmacy technicians we can minimize admission medication history errors and related downstream events.

Conditions

  • Adverse Drug Events

Interventions

OTHER

Pharmacist obtains admission medication history

OTHER

Pharmacy technician obtains admission medication history

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Institutes of Health (NIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • National Institute on Aging (NIA)

    collaborator NIH

  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joshua M Pevnick, MD, MSHS · Cedars-Sinai Health System

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-02-28
Completion
2016-10-31

More Related Trials

Read the full study record

This page highlights key information. For complete eligibility criteria, study locations, investigator contacts, and the full protocol, visit the original record on ClinicalTrials.gov.

View NCT02026453 on ClinicalTrials.gov