Teamwork tested: can pharmacists keep heart patients home?
NCT ID NCT03902028
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study looked at whether closer collaboration between doctors and pharmacists could reduce hospital readmissions for people with heart failure. About 229 adults hospitalized for heart failure took part. Researchers compared standard care to a more coordinated approach where pharmacists helped manage medications. The main goal was to see if this teamwork lowered the chance of being readmitted within three months.
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Study facts
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- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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229 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Aug 2019
- Finished
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Jan 2025
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
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Who can take part
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- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
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Inclusion Criteria: * Patient aged more than 18 years * Adult patient admitted in cardiology department (full hospitalisation or intensive care) for heart failure no matter the type and the stage of the disease * Person affiliated or beneficiary of a social security system * Collection of a free, informed, express and written consent Exclusion Criteria: * Non autonomous drug management patients and not disposing * a present caregiver during hospitalisation * Patients living in an institution * Person participating in another clinical trial with an exclusion period still ongoing * Person whose physical and/or psychological health is severely altered, and which, in the opinion of the investigator, may affect the participation's to the study * Person deprived of his rights, person under tutorship or guardianship * Refusal to sign the consent
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Conditions
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University Hospital of Montpellier Cardiology departments oh the Montpellier, Nîmes and Toulouse University Hospitals
Montpellier, Occitanie, 34295, France
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