Discharge Counseling and Medication Therapy Management (MTM) Services After Discharge for Heart Failure Patients

Stopped early · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Heart Failure

In brief

Readmission to a hospital shortly after discharge is a common and costly problem. In the United States patients with a diagnosis of heart failure currently experience an elevated 30 day readmission rate of approximately 20%. By providing patients with medication related counseling at discharge by a pharmacist, home medications at discharge, and seeing the patient again in a pharmacist-run Medication Therapy Management (MTM) clinic 7 days after discharge, the study anticipates achieving its primary goal of showing a reduction in the readmission rate. Secondary goals are: 1) to determine patients understanding of the medication they are taking, 2) to evaluate satisfaction with the comprehensive discharge counseling service, and 3) determine the number of interventions made and benefit of the MTM clinic.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01822171

Run by

Providence Health & Services

People needed

1

Starts

2013-01-01

Expected to finish

2013-05-01

Last updated by the study team

2013-05-22

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Heart Failure with high risk for readmission.
• Enroll in study prior to hospital discharge.

Where it is running

• Providence Centralia Hospital — Centralia, Washington, United States
• Providence St. Peter Hospital — Olympia, Washington, United States

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