Clinical trial NCT05035225: A National Survey on the Prevalence and Impact of Multiple Pharmacy Use in Specialty Pharmacy
Official title: A National Survey on the Prevalence and Impact of Multiple Pharmacy Use in Specialty Pharmacy
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Health Services Accessibility
Lead sponsor: Johns Hopkins University
Sponsor class: OTHER
Collaborators: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
name: University of California, Los Angeles
name: University of Washington
name: The Cleveland Clinic
First posted: 2021-09-05
Enrollment: 401
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NA
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: HEALTH_SERVICES_RESEARCH

Brief summary: Specialty medications often have dispensing restrictions which can be dictated by manufacturer limited distribution strategies, narrow insurance networks, or a combination of both. Unfortunately, this may result in patients being required to use 2 or more pharmacies to fill their prescription medications; this is referred to as multiple pharmacy use (MPU). The investigators' plan is to administer a survey to patients who have been prescribed one or more specialty medications to evaluate the prevalence of MPU in this population as well as to investigate patients' attitudes about MPU and potential factors increasing the likelihood of MPU

Detailed description: The investigators will identify patients from participating member sites via a review of prescribing records for specific specialty medications. Patients will be contacted via telephone to explain the purpose and risk of the study. Consented patients will then be asked a series of 11 questions about their attitudes and experience with taking and obtaining their specialty medication(s). Additional demographic and clinical information about patients will be collected via chart review.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects 18 years of age or older
* English-speakers
* An active patient of a performance institution and ability to provide informed consent to participate with the survey
* Electronically prescribed at least one specialty medication by a performance site provider, which can be either a new or renewed order, within the last 3 months

Exclusion Criteria:

* Subjects less than 18 years of age
* Non-English speakers
* Patients that cannot or are unwilling to provide consent
* Patients who have not had a new or renewed specialty medication prescription order placed electronically within the last 3 months

Primary outcomes:
measure: Percentage of Patients using Multiple Pharmacies
timeFrame: Within one year of study initiation
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Self-reported adherence and barriers
timeFrame: Within one year of study initiation
measure: Method of obtaining medications
timeFrame: Within one year of study initiation
measure: Experience with obtaining and administering medications
timeFrame: Within one year of study initiation
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Baltimore
country: United States
facility: Johns Hopkins Hospital
state: Maryland
Study officials:
affiliation: Johns Hopkins University
name: Whisler, PharmD
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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