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COMPLETED
40 participants
OBSERVATIONAL
2018-11-01
2019-10-31
Brief Summary
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Detailed Description
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To meet these new needs, the different countries of the world are analyzing and adopting various models of chronic disease management. Even if with different methodologies, all the models developed so far put the patient at the center of attention, in its uniqueness and with its needs, and propose to provide the latter with complete assistance, through the integration of health and social services.
In this scenario, also the role of pharmacist, historically linked to the dispensation of drugs upon presentation of a medical prescription and to a final control action to ensure a delivery of medicines in total safety, over time has evolved. In order to carry on this evolution, the pharmacist has been asked for new skills, to realize what has been defined as "the pharmacy of services", through which the pharmacist is recognized the possibility of becoming a strategic figure to meet the changed needs of the population on the one hand and the Italian National Health System on the other and to support the latter in the transition from a "waiting" medicine to an "initiative" medicine.
Diabetic disease and the resulting chronic complications, today, have a very significant impact on patients and their families, on morbidity and mortality, as well as having a strong economic impact on the health system. Despite this, most of the patients do not carry out what is foreseen by their diagnostic therapeutic assistance path (PDTA) due to several reasons such as long waiting times, the need to move to undergo examinations, which is not so easy for young people of working age as well as older people, lack of homogeneity in access to care and in the provision of services and more. The community pharmacist, therefore, represents, for the position in which it is located within the Italian National Health Service, a potential not yet considered. In fact, it could take on the role of case manager (a professional who manages one or more cases entrusted to him according to a pre-established path, such as PDTA, in a defined space-time context) of the patient suffering from type 2 diabetes mellitus due to the capillarity territory, to the hourly availability superior to any other territorial health structure, to the health skills in its possession and to what it can offer in terms of services within the so-called "pharmacy of service".
In this scenario, the pharmacist would not replace any of the other actors already present in the multidisciplinary care team but would integrate in the same and, moreover, being already an agreement with the Italian National Health Service, the conferral of this role would not cause a excessive increase in costs, such as that resulting from the hiring of new staff to achieve the same objectives.
Conditions
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Study Design
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COHORT
PROSPECTIVE
Study Groups
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Group study
Follow up of the patients for 12 months by the community pharmacist in the role of case manager and execution of the activities foreseen by the PAI (individual assistance plan) through telemedicine (ecg, fundus oculi, ankle arm index) and self analysis (glycated hemoglobin, lipid profile, uric acid microalbuminuria).
Follow up
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Interventions
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Follow up
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Eligibility Criteria
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Inclusion Criteria
* patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus diagnosis;
* able to express consent to the study.
Exclusion Criteria
ALL
No
Sponsors
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Federfarma Campania
OTHER
Federfarma Salerno
OTHER
Health Telematic Network
INDUSTRY
Biochemical Systems International S.p.A.
INDUSTRY
Next Sight srl
INDUSTRY
Farmacia La Regina s.r.l.
OTHER
Responsible Party
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Raffaele La Regina
Community pharmacist
Principal Investigators
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Raffaele La Regina, dr
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Farmacia La Regina s.r.l.
Locations
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Farmacia La Regina dott. Rocco Vito
San Rufo, Salerno, Italy
Countries
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References
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Gerber BS, Rapacki L, Castillo A, Tilton J, Touchette DR, Mihailescu D, Berbaum ML, Sharp LK. Design of a trial to evaluate the impact of clinical pharmacists and community health promoters working with African-Americans and Latinos with diabetes. BMC Public Health. 2012 Oct 23;12:891. doi: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-891.
Brophy L, Williams A, Berman EJ, Keleti D, Michael KE, Shepherd M, Fox SA, Jacobs C, Tan-Torres S, Gelzer AD, Tegenu M. Collaborative DTM reduces hospitalization and healthcare costs in patients with diabetes treated with polypharmacy. Am J Manag Care. 2014 Mar 1;20(3):e72-81.
Davidson MB. The effectiveness of nurse- and pharmacist-directed care in diabetes disease management: a narrative review. Curr Diabetes Rev. 2007 Nov;3(4):280-6. doi: 10.2174/157339907782330058.
Wubben DP, Vivian EM. Effects of pharmacist outpatient interventions on adults with diabetes mellitus: a systematic review. Pharmacotherapy. 2008 Apr;28(4):421-36. doi: 10.1592/phco.28.4.421.
Zullig LL, Melnyk SD, Stechuchak KM, McCant F, Danus S, Oddone E, Bastian L, Olsen M, Edelman D, Rakley S, Morey M, Bosworth HB. The Cardiovascular Intervention Improvement Telemedicine Study (CITIES): rationale for a tailored behavioral and educational pharmacist-administered intervention for achieving cardiovascular disease risk reduction. Telemed J E Health. 2014 Feb;20(2):135-43. doi: 10.1089/tmj.2013.0145. Epub 2013 Dec 4.
Maxwell LG, McFarland MS, Baker JW, Cassidy RF. Evaluation of the Impact of a Pharmacist-Led Telehealth Clinic on Diabetes-Related Goals of Therapy in a Veteran Population. Pharmacotherapy. 2016 Mar;36(3):348-56. doi: 10.1002/phar.1719. Epub 2016 Mar 11.
Littauer SL, Dixon DL, Mishra VK, Sisson EM, Salgado TM. Pharmacists providing care in the outpatient setting through telemedicine models: a narrative review. Pharm Pract (Granada). 2017 Oct-Dec;15(4):1134. doi: 10.18549/PharmPract.2017.04.1134. Epub 2017 Dec 19.
Barr PJ, McElnay JC, Hughes CM. Connected health care: the future of health care and the role of the pharmacist. J Eval Clin Pract. 2012 Feb;18(1):56-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2753.2010.01522.x. Epub 2010 Aug 4.
Hughes JD, Wibowo Y, Sunderland B, Hoti K. The role of the pharmacist in the management of type 2 diabetes: current insights and future directions. Integr Pharm Res Pract. 2017 Jan 16;6:15-27. doi: 10.2147/IPRP.S103783. eCollection 2017.
Nye AM. A Clinical Pharmacist in Telehealth Team Care for Rural Patients with Diabetes. N C Med J. 2017 May-Jun;78(3):183-184. doi: 10.18043/ncm.78.3.183. No abstract available.
Emilia Romagna region. Causes of non-adherence to the diagnostic-therapeutic treatment of diabetes mellitus: a qualitative-quantitative study for improvement - Final report. June 2018
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Document Type: Study Protocol and Statistical Analysis Plan
Document Type: Informed Consent Form
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