Improving Drug Use for Elderly Heart Failure Patients

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 17 October 2012
• Main ID: NCT00388622
• Date of registration: 08/10/2006
• Primary sponsor: University of North Carolina
• Public title: Improving Drug Use for Elderly Heart Failure Patients
• Scientific title: Improving Drug Use for Elderly Heart Failure Patients
• Date of first enrolment: February 2001
• Target sample size: 314
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT00388622
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Health Services Research

Countries of recruitment

United States

Contacts

• Name: Michael D Murray, PharmD, MPH
• Affiliation: UNC-Chapel Hill

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- age 50 and older

- prescription for at least one cardiovascular medication for heart failure

- plan to receive care and prescriptions at the study health care facility

- ability to hear within the normal range of conversation

- English speaking

- willingness to obtain echocardiography

Exclusion Criteria:

- dementia



Age minimum: 50 Years
Age maximum: N/A
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Heart Failure

Intervention(s)

Behavioral: Pharmacist intervention

Primary Outcome(s)

Exacerbation of heart failure

Health-related quality of life

Medication adherence

Secondary Outcome(s)

Direct costs

Health care utilization

Patient satisfaction

Secondary ID(s)

R01-AG19105

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors

Secondary Sponsor(s)

Indiana University School of Medicine

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Purdue University

Wishard Health Services