Pharmacist-led Group Medical Visits to Help With Diabetes Management
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus, Cardiovascular Diseases
In brief
This is a multi-site open label randomized controlled study of patients with type 2 diabetes undergoing pharmacist-led group medical visits that include education by a multi-disciplinary personnel, behavioral modification and pharmacotherapy case management vs. usual care
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00554671
- Run by
- VA Office of Research and Development
- People needed
- 250
- Starts
- 2008-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2012-06-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2018-07-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Diabetic veterans with HbA1c >7.0% and at least one of the following:
- being a smoker (any cigarette smoking < 30 days)
- having an LDL >100 mg/dl or a blood pressure >130/80 mm Hg documented in at least two occasions within the last 6 months
- able to participate and discuss their DM and cardiac risk control in a group setting and sign informed consent
You may not qualify if…
- patients without eligible cardiac risk factors within the last 6 months
- those who are unable to attend the group sessions
- or disease conditions such as psychiatric instability (acutely suicidal, psychotic) or organic brain injury that preclude them from performing DM self-care
- patients with conditions that would preclude them from standard algorithm-based medication dose titrations such as those who are pregnant or with complex co-morbidities as defined by New York Heart Association Class 3 or 4 heart failure, liver cirrhosis, end-stage renal disease on dialysis and end-stage cancer will be excluded from the study
- all women of childbearing age will have a pregnancy test before study enrollment
Where it is running
- VA Connecticut Health Care System (West Haven) — West Haven, Connecticut, United States
- VA Pacific Islands Health Care System, Honolulu — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- Providence VA Medical Center, Providence, RI — Providence, Rhode Island, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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