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Referral to Pharmacists - Ambulance Clinician Experience Survey

NCT04085939 · Status: UNKNOWN · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 330

Last updated 2019-11-25

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Falls in people aged 65 years and over are a common reason for calling the emergency ambulance service. Falls can be serious, with about 1 in 20 people having to be taken to hospital because they have been injured. Thankfully, in more than 4 out of 10 cases, people are not seriously injured and can be left at home. However, it is important that the reason for the fall is found and future falls are prevented where possible.

Yorkshire Ambulance Service can already make a referral to another local service to get specialist practical help for falls prevention when people are left at home after a fall. Research has shown that the safe use of medicines can prevent future falls, but that did not form. Now a new service has been set up for Yorkshire Ambulance Service to refer patients to the Leeds General Practice (GP) Confederation. A pharmacist working in the patients GP surgery will undertake a review of the patient's use of their medicines.

However, it is unknown how ambulance staff identify patients who may be at risk of future falls due to medicines being taken or issues with medicines management at home. This data is not currently collected in any ambulance patient records. It is also not known what their current practice is when a patient who is not managing their medicines well is identified. A literature search has revealed no papers on this topic. This research survey seeks to understand how ambulance clinicians identify and assist patients who are having difficulty in managing their medicines. Therefore, the results of this study are likely to provide new knowledge which will be generalisable to United Kingdom (UK) ambulance service practice.

Conditions

  • Pharmacist-Patient Relations
  • Fall Patients

Interventions

OTHER

Online survey

Anonymous survey using the online survey tool, JotForm

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

    lead OTHER_GOV

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-09-30
Primary Completion
2020-06-30
Completion
2020-09-30

Countries

  • United Kingdom

Study Locations

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