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Contemp Clin Trials ; 106: 106419, 2021 07.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33932574

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BACKGROUND: Older adults commonly face challenges in understanding, obtaining, administering, and monitoring medication regimens after hospitalization. These difficulties can lead to avoidable morbidity, mortality, and hospital readmissions. Pharmacist-led peri-discharge interventions can reduce adverse drug events, but few large randomized trials have examined their effectiveness in reducing readmissions. Demonstrating reductions in 30-day readmissions can make a financial case for implementing pharmacist-led programs across hospitals. METHODS/DESIGN: The PHARMacist Discharge Care, or the PHARM-DC intervention, includes medication reconciliation at admission and discharge, medication review, increased communication with caregivers, providers, and retail pharmacies, and patient education and counseling during and after discharge. The intervention is being implemented in two large hospitals: Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Brigham and Women's Hospital. To evaluate the intervention, we are using a pragmatic, randomized clinical trial design with randomization at the patient level. The primary outcome is utilization within 30 days of hospital discharge, including unforeseen emergency department visits, observation stays, and readmissions. Randomizing 9776 patients will achieve 80% power to detect an absolute reduction of 2.5% from an estimated baseline rate of 27.5%. Qualitative analysis will use interviews with key stakeholders to study barriers to and facilitators of implementing PHARM-DC. A cost-effectiveness analysis using a time-and-motion study to estimate time spent on the intervention will highlight the potential cost savings per readmission. DISCUSSION: If this trial demonstrates a business case for the PHARM-DC intervention, with few barriers to implementation, hospitals may be much more likely to adopt pharmacist-led peri-discharge medication management programs. TRIAL REGISTRATION: ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04071951.


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Farmacêuticos , Cuidado Transicional , Idoso , Feminino , Hospitalização , Humanos , Reconciliação de Medicamentos , Alta do Paciente , Readmissão do Paciente
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Clin Appl Thromb Hemost ; 25: 1076029619833480, 2019.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-30841720

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Unfractionated heparin dosing is unpredictable and subject to numerous pharmacokinetic changes including distribution and metabolic changes associated with obesity and age. Weight-based dosing is commonly used to better predict the dose for a patient when targeting a therapeutic range. A dosing equation that adjusts weight-based doses for age and body mass index may improve therapeutic dose prediction. We conducted a 2-phase observational study with a derivation and validation period to develop an equation to adjust weight-based unfractionated heparin for age and body mass index to target a therapeutic activated partial thromboplastin time of 60 to 80 seconds. The first phase retrospectively identified patients who acheived therapeutic anticoagulation and utilized linear regression to determine a predictive equation for weight-based dosing that adjusts for age and body mass index. The second phase prospectively identified patients in an observational manner and compared the dose of unfractionated heparin on which they became therapeutic against both the weight-based dose and the predicted dose adjusted for age and body mass index. The correlation between predictive age and body mass index adjusted dose and actual therapeutic dose was 0.703 compared to the correlation between the empiric weight-based dose and actual therapeutic dose which was 0.532 ( P = .05). Age and body mass index adjusted weight-based dosing significantly improved therapeutic dose prediction for unfractionated heparin. Further study in a prospective, randomized trial is warranted for validation of this approach in a real world setting.


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Anticoagulantes/uso terapêutico , Heparina/uso terapêutico , Tromboembolia Venosa/tratamento farmacológico , Adulto , Fatores Etários , Idoso , Idoso de 80 Anos ou mais , Anticoagulantes/administração & dosagem , Anticoagulantes/farmacologia , Índice de Massa Corporal , Peso Corporal , Feminino , Heparina/administração & dosagem , Heparina/farmacologia , Humanos , Masculino , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Estudos Retrospectivos , Tromboembolia Venosa/patologia
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