Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Enhanced Continuity of Pharmacy Care for Cardiovascular or Pulmonary Diseases
Brief Summary: This study will test whether enhanced continuity of pharmacy care that includes increased communication between inpatient and outpatient settings will improve the appropriateness of medication therapy and reduce the number of serious adverse drug events, hospitalizations and unscheduled office visits in vulnerable patients with cardiovascular disease, pulmonary disease or diabetes.


Options:
A: Inclusion Criteria:

* acute admitted patients using minimum 4 regular drugs from minimum 2 drug groups at admittance
* Norwegian personal identification number

Exclusion Criteria:

* terminally ill
* not able no communicate in Norwegian or English and an interpreter is not available
* patients isolated due to severe infections
* readmitted patients earlier included are not re-included
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* Admitted to a participating study hospital
* Diagnosis of acute coronary syndromes or heart failure

Exclusion Criteria:

* Too ill to participate
* Corrected visual acuity worse than 20/200
* Severe hearing impairment
* Patient is not being discharged to their home
* No regular telephone number
* Not fluent in English or Spanish
* Unintelligible speech
* In police custody
* Caregiver manages all medications
* Delirium or severe dementia
* Psychotic illness
* Already participating in a conflicting study
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* Speaks either English or Spanish
* Willing to obtain all long-term prescriptions from one community pharmacy during the 90-day study period
* Diagnosed with at least one of the following conditions: high blood pressure, hyperlipidemia, heart failure, coronary artery disease, heart attack, stroke, transient ischemic attack, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, or receiving oral anticoagulation therapy
* Admitted to the general medicine, family medicine, cardiology, or orthopedics services hospital department

Exclusion Criteria:

* Does not have a working telephone
* Has a hearing impairment that does not allow the use of a telephone
* Enrolled in Iowa Care (i.e., individual has no community physician or community pharmacist following hospital discharge)
* Life expectancy estimated at less than 6 months at the time of study entry
* Dementia or cognitive impairment
* Severe psychiatric or psychosocial factors, including substance abuse, that may impair the desire or ability to complete all aspects of the study
* Admission to the psychiatric, surgery, or hematology/oncology services hospital department
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* Admitted to a medical ward, AND
* \> 55 years AND
* ≥ 10 prescription medications at admission

OR

• ≥ 3 high-risk medications (anticoagulants, antiplatelets, insulin, oral hypoglycemics) at admission

Exclusion Criteria:

* Expected discharge to another state, acute care facility, psychiatric facility, or locked facility (including locked skilled nursing facility, jail, or prison) OR
* Expected AMA or left hospital against medical advice (AMA) OR
* Homeless OR
* On hospice OR
* Already enrolled into study within the past year OR
* Patients admitted by admitting or attending Primary Medical Doctors who have a specialty that is not Internal Medicine or Family Medicine OR
* Expected to receive pharmacist-led peri- and post-discharge medication management regardless of the trial OR
* Expected post-discharge setting not conducive to the studied medication management intervention (e.g. SNF, rehabilitation facility) OR
* Patients admitted with a suspected or confirmed diagnosis of COVID-19.

Answer: C