Key result
Pharmaceutical care services provided by clinical pharmacists significantly reduced the rate of forgetting to take medication (2.9% vs 36.2%) and experiencing side effects (4.5% vs 48.8%) in patients with heart failure.
Why the study?
Drug-related problems cause significant but preventable morbidity and mortality in heart failure, motivating evaluation of the effect of pharmaceutical care in this population.
Does pharmaceutical care by clinical pharmacists improve drug-related problems and medication adherence in patients with heart failure?
RCT (n=160)
Open-label
Random number generator program
No
Does pharmaceutical care by clinical pharmacists improve drug-related problems and medication adherence in patients with heart failure?
Absolute Event Rate: 2.9% vs 36.2%
p-value: p=<.05
Clinical pharmacist-led pharmaceutical care significantly reduces drug-related problems and improves medication adherence in patients with heart failure.
Pharmaceutical care may reduce medication nonadherence and side effects in HF; leaves open impact on hard outcomes in randomized trials.
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Taner et al. (2022) conducted an RCT in Heart failure (n=160). Pharmaceutical care services vs. Usual clinical follow-up was evaluated on Forgetting to take medication (p=<.05). Pharmaceutical care services provided by clinical pharmacists significantly reduced the rate of forgetting to take medication (2.9% vs 36.2%) and experiencing side effects (4.5% vs 48.8%) in patients with heart failure.
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