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Pharmacist and Data Driven Quality Improvement in Primary Care

NCT03747107 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 19

Last updated 2021-09-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

P-DQIP is an intervention to improve prescribing safety in primary care. The 'intervention' is a health board quality improvement programme that will be implemented across all practices in one National Health Service (NHS) board in Scotland (Tayside), and comprises the following components:

i. Case finding of patients with drug therapy risks via the P-DQIP informatics tool ii. Decision support for clinicians when conducting medication reviews via the P-DQIP informatics tool iii. Support from practice pharmacists in reviewing and managing targeted patients iv. Ongoing performance feedback via the P-DQIP informatics tool v. Promotion of the P-DQIP tool and intervention among general practices. The P-DQIP intervention will be evaluated in all NHS Tayside practices who agree to share their data for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Conditions

  • Medication Safety

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

P-DQIP

The 'intervention' is a health board quality improvement programme to be implemented across all practices in one Scottish NHS health board and comprises the following components: (i) Case finding via the P-DQIP informatics tool to identify patients with drug therapy risks for review; (ii) Decision support via the P-DQIP informatics tool to facilitate medication reviews; (iii) Practice pharmacists will be trained on the use of the P-DQIP informatics tool and instructed to target patients at risk of bleeding and hypoglycaemia first (iv) Ongoing performance feedback. Practices and locality pharmacists will be able to access reports on review activity and targeted prescribing; (v) promotion of the P-DQIP tool and intervention among GP practices. The P-DQIP intervention will be evaluated in all NHS Tayside practices who agree to share their data for monitoring and evaluation purposes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • NHS Tayside

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • University of Dundee

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tobias Dreischulte · University of Dundee/NHS Tayside

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-09-16
Primary Completion
2021-06-30
Completion
2021-06-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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