The Medication Metronome Project - Study to Facilitate Follow-up Testing Resulting From Prescribed Medications to Improve Patient Safety and Care
Completed · Not applicable
Conditions studied: Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2, Hypertension, Hyperlipidemia
In brief
This project tests a model of chronic disease medication management in which the decision to initiate or adjust medical therapy is directly linked to a sequence of subsequent clinical actions (e.g. monitoring for adverse drug events, assessing response to therapy, changing medication dose) performed independently of the office visit. The investigators hypothesize that establishing a visit-independent, health information technology (IT) supported cycle of laboratory monitoring and iterative medication dose adjustment will result in more effective chronic disease care.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01586897
- Run by
- Massachusetts General Hospital
- People needed
- 52
- Starts
- 2012-05-01
- Expected to finish
- 2013-05-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2016-01-11
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- All primary care physicians from participating practices will be eligible to participate in the study.
- Patients Eligible for Analysis: The primary unit of analysis will be prescribed medicine, grouped with patient and within prescribing PCP. Three potentially overlapping medication-based cohorts will be defined: 1) Patients prescribed any hypoglycemic agents, 2) Patients prescribed thiazide diuretics, ACE-Is, or ARBs, and 3) Patients prescribed statins. Based on this design, individual patients may contribute to more than one medication analytic cohort.
You may not qualify if…
- Patients Excluded from Analysis: Patients who are subsequently identified as having died during the course of the study intervention using the Social Security Death Index, to have left the MGH system, or to have changed PCPs.
Where it is running
- Massachusetts General Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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