Status:
COMPLETED
Integrating Family Medicine and Pharmacy to Advance Primary Care Therapeutics
Lead Sponsor:
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Conditions:
Diabetes
Hypertension
Eligibility:
All Genders
65+ years
Phase:
PHASE4
Brief Summary
Recent health policy documents have endorsed an integrated model of collaboration between pharmacists and physicians in primary care. The integration of pharmacists into primary care has been identifi...
Detailed Description
The overall goal of IMPACT was to improve patient outcomes by optimizing drug therapy through a community practice model that integrates pharmacists into family practices. This multi-site demonstrati...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- 65 + years and any two of the following:
- Elevated blood pressure
- Elevated hemoglobin A1C
- Elevated LDL-C
- Diagnosis of hypertension and no blood pressure readings in past 12 months
- Diagnosis of diabetes and no hemoglobin A1C readings in past 12 months
- Diagnosis of hyperlipidemia and no cholesterol readings in past 12 months
- Diagnosis of osteoarthritis or rheumatoid arthritis
- Using narcotics
- Diagnosis of hypertension, diagnosis of diabetes and not using an ACE inhibitor
- Diagnosis of hypertension, elevated blood pressure and using an NSAID
- Diagnosis of hyperlipidemia, elevate dLDL-C and not using a lipid lowering agent
- Diagnosis of hypertension, high blood pressure and not using a potassium wasting diuretic
Exclusion
- Less than one visit to family physician in past 12 months
- More than 20 visits to family physician in past 12 months
- Awaiting placement to a nursing home or long-term care facility
- Alcoholism
- Palliative care patient
- Family physician only sees patient as a home visit
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2004
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
End Date :
July 1 2006
Estimated Enrollment :
1400 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00157638
Start Date
February 1 2004
End Date
July 1 2006
Last Update
September 11 2006
Active Locations (3)
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1
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8N 1G6
2
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, K1N 5C8
3
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 2S2