Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: Optimizing Drug-Therapy in Patients, 80 Years and Older, in Order to Reduce Drug-Related Morbidity and Usage of Secondary Care - a Randomized Controlled Trial
Brief Summary: The purpose of this study is to measure the effects of an enhanced service where a pharmacists is part of the healthcare team on the ward (focusing on drug-related problems and transferring information between primary and secondary care). Primary outcome measure is visits to hospital during a 12-month follow-up period, and the population is patients 80 years and older.


Options:
A: 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
B: Inclusion Criteria:

* 80 years and older
* Acute admission to study ward

Exclusion Criteria:

* \<80 years
* Scheduled admission
* Previously admitted to studyward during study period
C: Inclusion Criteria:

* patients age 55 and older
* admitted to the general medicine, family medicine, cardiology, and neurology services at San Francisco General Hospital,
* able to communicate in either English, Spanish, Mandarin or Cantonese,
* attending physicians agree to the patient's participation.
* Patients must be able to demonstrate an understanding of the study's goals through a set of teach back questions included in the consent process.

Exclusion Criteria:

* transferred from an outside hospital;
* admitted for a planned hospitalization (e.g. chemotherapy, a planned surgery)
* requiring hospice, nursing home, rehab or other institutional settings (i.e. expected by the physician team to be discharged to skilled nursing facilities) - those unable to independently consent (i.e. severely cognitively impaired, delirious, deaf, or involuntarily hospitalized because of severe mental illness)
* unable to understand English, Spanish or Cantonese (as reported by medical teams or unable to complete the consent teach-back process)
* less than age 55
* aphasic
* otherwise excluded by the medical team
* participated in the pilot project of this intervention.
D: Inclusion Criteria:

* An acute cerebrovascular event (ischemic stroke or intra-cerebral bleeding (ICB)) with the signs and symptoms of an acute stroke according to the World Health Organisation definition of acute stroke14 within the last 12 hours without the need or possibility of a neurosurgical intervention
* No thrombolytic therapy within the first 3 hours (in order to allow the correct comparison with the Swiss cohort of the IST trial
* The informed consent of the patient or, if not possible, of the relatives
* Living at home before the event
* Lack of participation in another trial.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Thrombolytic therapy within the first 3 hours (in order to allow the correct comparison with the Swiss cohort of the IST trial
* No informed consent of the patient or, if not possible, of the relatives
* Not living at home before the event
* Participation in another trial (26 patients were excluded because of TIA with full recovery within 24 hours after the event)

Answer: B