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Impact of Clinical Pharmacy Service on Patient Care and Cost Saving

NCT02861677 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 576

Last updated 2016-08-10

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Summary

Background: Pharmacists have been proven to improve patient outcomes, medication adherence, glycemic control, reduce blood pressure, low-density lipoprotein, health care costs and length of hospital stay, and enhance quality of life.

Objective: to measure the impact of clinical pharmacy service on patient care and cost saving of patients at inpatient wards and ambulatory care clinics of Jimma University Specialized Hospital.

Methods: single center Randomized Controlled Trial will be conducted. Participants will be assigned to either pharmacy professionals' intervention group or non-intervention (control) group based on computer generated random number. The study will be done from July 26 to September 15, 2016. The total sample size is calculated with Open Epi online sample size calculator with 95% CI and 80% power. The total sample size is found to be 146 for inpatients and 473 for outpatients. Linear regression, student's t-test, logistic regression and chi-square test will be used for statistical analysis. Variables with p\<0.05 will be considered statistically significant.

Conditions

  • Health Care Improvement

Interventions

OTHER

pharmaceutical care

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • MSH/SIAPS-Ethiopia

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • Jimma University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
100 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-09-30
Completion
2016-09-30

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