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- Title
Randomized Trial of a Pharmacist-Delivered Intervention for Improving Lipid-Lowering Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease.
- Authors
Ma, Yunsheng; Ockene, Ira S.; Rosal, Milagros C.; Merriam, Philip A.; Ockene, Judith K.; Gandhi, Pritesh J.
- Abstract
A randomized trial of a pharmacist-delivered intervention (PI) versus usual care (UC) was conducted; 689 subjects with known coronary heart disease were recruited from cardiac catheterization laboratories. Participants in the PI condition received 5 pharmacist-delivered telephone counseling calls post-hospital discharge. At one year, 65% in the PI condition and 60% in the UC condition achieved an LDL-C level <100 mg/dL (P = .29); mean statin adherence was 0.88 in the PI, and 0.90 in the UC (P = .51). The highest percentage of those who reached the LDL-C goal were participants who used statins as opposed to those who did not use statins (67% versus 58%, P = .05). However, only 53% and 56% of the patients in the UC and PI conditions, respectively, were using statins. We conclude that a pharmacist-delivered intervention aimed only at improving patient adherence is unlikely to positively affect outcomes. Efforts must be oriented towards influencing physicians to increase statin prescription rates.
- Subjects
RANDOMIZED controlled trials; CORONARY disease; CARDIOVASCULAR diseases; PATIENTS; CARDIAC catheterization; STATINS (Cardiovascular agents); PATIENT compliance; LOW density lipoproteins; HEALTH outcome assessment; MEDICAL prescriptions; CARDIOVASCULAR agents
- Publication
Cholesterol, 2010, p1
- ISSN
2090-1283
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1155/2010/383281