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Impact of a Pharmacist Intervention on Ambulatory Patients with Heart Failure: A Randomised Controlled Study

Author: Korajkic, Amela Country/countries: Australia Number of patients participating in the study: 70 This study was focused on patients living with Heart Failure
Intervention analysed in the study: Usual Care Intervention components: UC
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Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Dietician/nutritionist, Nurses, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Self-monitoring
Intervention analysed in the study: Monitoring and action-based behavioural techniques Intervention components: E+MT+AB
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Setting of implementation: Outpatient care (hospital) Professionals delivering the intervention: Dietician/nutritionist, Nurses, Pharmacists, Physicians Targeted self-management behaviours: Condition-specific behaviours, Early recognition of symptoms, Eating behaviours, Medication use and adherence, Self-monitoring

Outcomes measured in the study

Outcome Measure Tool
Adherence to medication or other treatment Adherence to medication N/A
Hospital admissions All-cause hospital admissions N/A
Knowledge Knowledge Knowledge Acquisition Questionnaire (KAQ)
Quality of life Quality of life N/A

Patient characteristics

Age: 57.0 years (+/- a standard deviation of 12.0) Gender: N/A Time since diagnosis of Heart Failure: N/A Severity of the disease: N/A Multi-morbidity: N/A
  • Number of co-morbidities: N/A

Level of health literacy: N/A
  • Tool: N/A

Socio-economic characteristics: N/A

Risk of Bias of this study

Outcome Random sequence generation Allocation concealment Blinding performance Blinding detection objective outcomes assessment Attrition incomplete outcome Incorrect statistical methods Recruitment bias Selective outcome reporting
Adherence to medication or other treatment - Adherence to medication
Hospital admissions - All-cause hospital admissions
Knowledge - Knowledge
Quality of life - Quality of life