Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Improving Medication Use in Patients With Hypertension
Brief Summary: The purpose of this trial is to determine whether minority and low-income patients with high blood pressure take their medications better when they are helped by a pharmacist and provided with special medication packaging and information aimed at persons with low health literacy.


Options:
A: Inclusion criteria:

* SCID diagnosis of schizophrenia or schizoaffective disorder
* Partially remitted outpatients, defined as persons who have received clear symptomatic benefit from antipsychotic medication but remain symptomatic (due to lack of efficacy or inability to tolerate an efficacious dose) or suffer significant side effects
* Treatment with antipsychotic medications for at least 2 months
* Received at least 1 outpatient mental health service every 3 months for the past 6 months

Exclusion criteria:

* Severe symptoms or side effects that indicate the necessity for a medication change
* Currently taking 3 or more antipsychotic medications for ongoing daily administration (PRN medications and mood stabilizers are allowable)
* Treatment with clozapine
* One or more nights spent in a psychiatric hospitalization within the past 3 months
* Received services from a crisis intervention program within the past 3 months
* Require placement in a skilled nursing facility as a result of a physical condition or disability
* Criminal charges pending (once charges clear, the person will be considered)
* Pregnant or breast feeding
* Contraindication to any of the medications to which the patient might be assigned
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* 18 years of age and older
* plan to receive health care and prescriptions at study facility
* prescribed at least one blood pressure medication
* English-speaking
* access to a telephone
* no hearing impairments in the normal range of conversation

Exclusion Criteria:

* dementia
C: For interview questionnaire:

Inclusion criteria are:

1. Accepted informed consent,
2. The healthcare professional is practicing in the involved nursing homes.

Exclusion criteria are:

1) Decline/unable to provide consent.

For team-care deprescribing study:

Inclusion criteria are:

1. Accepted informed consent (unless cognitive-impaired, with no or un-contactable next-of-kin),
2. Adult aged 65 years and above,
3. Currently on five or more medications.

Exclusion criteria are:

1. Below the age of 65 years of age,
2. Life expectancy of less than 6 months or respite care.
D: Nursing Home Wards:

Inclusion criteria:

* Long stay ward
* Capability and commitment to perform a multidisciplinary multistep medication review.

Exclusion criteria:

* Short stay, revalidation or observation wards
* Specialized ward where patients with an atypical etiology are cared for.
* Elderly care physicians who have recently received or who are to receive recertification at short notice with regard to systematic medication review methodology.
* Participation in other studies aimed at improving the quality of drug prescription (in the past 12 months).

Nursing Home Residents:

Inclusion criteria:

* A life expectancy of \>4 weeks as judged by the treating elderly care physician.
* IC provided by patients themselves or provided by a legal representative for incapacitated patients.

Exclusion criteria:

* Refusal of treatment with medicines.
* Having received a multidisciplinary systematic medication review in the past 6 months.
* Being terminally ill and having a life expectancy ≤ 4 weeks as judged by the treating elderly care physician.
* Other reasons at the discretion of the elderly care physician / nursing staff

Answer: B