What is the impact of a new service designed to improve communication about medicines between the hospital and the community when patients are discharged?
- Conditions
- Any medical conditionNot Applicable
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN17094460
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Manchester
- Brief Summary
2023 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37819463/ (added 22/03/2024)
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 594
The study did not involve recruiting participants, the inclusion criteria for is for eligible patient records for retrospective screening by general practice pharmacists.
‘Safety’ impact study data:
1. Age of 18 years or above
2. Discharged from in-patient hospital stay at NHS acute hospital in England
3. Staying at least 24 hours in hospital
4. Patients are prescribed at least 1 regular medication
5. Patients must be registered to one of the 20 named general practices involved in the project, located within the study Clinical Commissioning Group
6. Patient discharged on new or recurrent Monitored Dosage System (MDS) during a predefined 6-month period before and after the TCAM service went live
TCAM service utilisation ‘Activity’ data:
7. All patient discharged and referred via the TCAM service from March 2019 - February 2020
The study did not involve recruiting participants, the exclusion criteria are for patient records for retrospective screening stage by general practice-based pharmacists.
1. Patients discharged from an inpatient hospital stay from a hospital other than the proposed hospital
2. Patient stays less than 24 hours in NHS acute hospital in England
3. Discharged with no MDS
4. Patients who had a planned hospital admission including, e.g. dialysis, day-case surgery, chemotherapy or transfusion-related: as they are a specific group of patients which limits the generalisability of the data
5. Patients without a mediation reconciliation or equivalent data in the general practice computer system, to extract data from
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Other
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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