Please select the arm or intervention descriptions that belong to the clinical trial below.
Title: Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians to Improve Admission Medication History Accuracy
Brief Summary: We tested two interventions to improve the accuracy of medication histories obtained at hospital admission. The interventions target elderly and chronically ill patients prone to erroneous medication histories and resultant medication errors. For targeted patients, we tested the effect of using pharmacists and pharmacy technicians to obtain an initial medication history. This was studied using a randomized controlled trial of usual care (which involves nurses and physicians) vs usual care + pharmacists vs usual care + pharmacy technicians to obtain an admission medication history.

The overarching hypothesis was that by leveraging pharmacists and pharmacy technicians we can minimize admission medication history errors and related downstream events.


Options:
A: Arm Label: Extended Treatment Group; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Device: Glucose and lipids, Device: Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c, Device: Blood Pressure and Heart Rate, Device: Body mass index, Device: Waist and Hip circumference, Behavioral: Comprehensive Medication Management | Arm Label: Usual Treatment Group; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Device: Glucose and lipids, Device: Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c, Device: Blood Pressure and Heart Rate, Device: Body mass index, Device: Waist and Hip circumference | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Glucose and lipids; Assigned to Arm(s): Extended Treatment Group, Usual Treatment Group | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Glycosylated Hemoglobin A1c; Assigned to Arm(s): Extended Treatment Group, Usual Treatment Group | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Blood Pressure and Heart Rate; Assigned to Arm(s): Extended Treatment Group, Usual Treatment Group | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Body mass index; Assigned to Arm(s): Extended Treatment Group, Usual Treatment Group | Intervention Type: DEVICE; Name: Waist and Hip circumference; Assigned to Arm(s): Extended Treatment Group, Usual Treatment Group | Intervention Type: BEHAVIORAL; Name: Comprehensive Medication Management; Assigned to Arm(s): Extended Treatment Group
B: Arm Label: Usual care; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Arm Label: Pharmacist obtains home med hx; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Pharmacist obtains admission medication history | Arm Label: Pharm tech obtains home med hx; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Pharmacy technician obtains admission medication history | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Pharmacist obtains admission medication history; Assigned to Arm(s): Pharmacist obtains home med hx | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Pharmacy technician obtains admission medication history; Assigned to Arm(s): Pharm tech obtains home med hx
C: Arm Label: Patient-centred tailored intervention; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Medicines Advice Service | Arm Label: Control; Type: NO_INTERVENTION; Interventions: N/A | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Medicines Advice Service; Assigned to Arm(s): Patient-centred tailored intervention
D: Arm Label: Usual Care; Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR; Interventions: Other: Usual Care | Arm Label: Enhanced pharmacist care; Type: EXPERIMENTAL; Interventions: Other: Enhanced pharmacist care | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Enhanced pharmacist care; Assigned to Arm(s): Enhanced pharmacist care | Intervention Type: OTHER; Name: Usual Care; Assigned to Arm(s): Usual Care

Answer: B