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Trial reportJournal of the American Heart Association2013

EHR-based medication support and nurse-led medication therapy management: rationale and design for a three-arm clinic randomized trial.

Stephen D Persell, Milton Eder, Elisha Friesema, Corinne Connor, Alfred Rademaker, Dustin D French, Jennifer King, Michael S Wolf

Open access · goldAbstract readMulticenter StudyRandomized Controlled Trial
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Trial report in Journal of the American Heart Association, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Stephen D PersellDivision of General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL.
Milton Eder
Elisha Friesema
Corinne Connor
Alfred Rademaker
Dustin D French
Jennifer King
Michael S Wolf
Northwestern University · USAccess Community Health Network · US

Funding

EHR-based Health Literacy Strategy to Promote Medication Therapy ManagementR01NR012745 · NINR · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI PERSELL, STEPHEN · 2011 to 2015
$2.8M
NINR NIH HHS R01 NR012745NINR NIH HHS R01NR012745
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundPatients with chronic conditions often use complex medical regimens. A nurse-led strategy to support medication therapy management incorporated into primary care teams may lead to improved use of medications for disease control. Electronic health record (EHR) tools may offer a lower-cost, less intensive approach to improving medication management. METHODS AND

resultsThe Northwestern and Access Community Health Network Medication Education Study is a health center-level cluster-randomized trial being conducted within a network of federally qualified community health centers. Health centers have been enrolled in groups of 3 and randomized to (1) usual care, (2) EHR-based medication management tools alone, or (3) EHR tools plus nurse-led medication therapy management. Patients with uncontrolled hypertension who are prescribed ≥ 3 medications of any kind are recruited from the centers. EHR tools include a printed medication list to prompt review at each visit and automated plain-language medication information within the after-visit summary to encourage proper medication use. In the nurse-led intervention, patients receive one-on-one counseling about their medication regimens to clarify medication discrepancies and identify drug-related concerns, safety issues, and nonadherence. Nurses also provide follow-up telephone calls following new prescriptions and periodically to perform medication review. The primary study outcome is systolic blood pressure after 1 year. Secondary outcomes include measures of understanding of dosing instructions, discrepancies between patient-reported medications and the medical record, adherence, and intervention costs.

conclusionsThe Northwestern and Access Community Health Network Medication Education Study will assess the effects of 2 approaches to support outpatient medication management among patients with uncontrolled hypertension in federally qualified health center settings.

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Electronic Health RecordsMedication Therapy ManagementNursing ProcessAmbulatory Care FacilitiesHumansHypertensionadherenceelectronic health recordshypertensionmedication reconciliationmedication therapy managementnurse educator

Identifiers

PMID24157649
PMCPMC3835237
OpenAlexW2138836420

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