Can your genes help your pharmacist pick better meds?
NCT ID NCT06660264
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Sep 09, 2026 · Updated 4 times
Summary
This study looks at whether a pharmacist's review of your medications, combined with your genetic test results, can lead to better outcomes and lower costs. About 600 employees from the University of Pittsburgh and UPMC will take part. Half will get a medication review with genetic info, the other half without. Researchers will compare healthcare costs and how well medications match genetic guidelines.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Pharmacist Personalized Medication Review (PMR) with pharmacogenomic test results
- What this could lead to
- If successful, this could show that adding genetic information to medication reviews helps tailor prescriptions, potentially reducing side effects and healthcare costs.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study in a specific employee group, so results may not apply broadly. The main goal is cost savings, not a direct health outcome.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- 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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About 600 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Jan 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * \>/= 18 years old * Enrolled in the UPMC insurance plan for at least 1 year * Identified by UPMC Healthplan as a Pitt/UPMC employee who is likely to benefit from preemptive PGx panel testing based on polypharmacy, high annual prescription costs and a risk for poor medication-related outcomes based on exposure to medications with FDA or CPIC Level A/B PGx guidance using payer data * Participating in Pitt+Me Discovery with elective return of PGx results Exclusion Criteria: * Previous panel PGx testing (self-reported) * Have a terminal illness (specifically metastatic cancer, palliative care or hospice) * Have had a liver, small bowel, or allogenic bone marrow/stem cell transplant * Cannot provide informed consent and/or complete the study protocol due to serious cognitive impairment * Institutionalized or too ill to participate (i.e. incarcerated, psychiatric or nursing home facility) * Plan to drop UPMC Health Plan coverage for any reason within 12 months of enrollment * Recent blood transfusion may be exclusionary only if the end of recruitment is nearing and there is insufficient time to observe a minimum waiting period between date of transfusion and date of sample collection. These minimum waiting periods are determined by type of transfusion: 7 days for platelets/plasma/cryoprecipitate; 2 months for packed red blood cells (PRBCs): and 6 months for whole blood or unknown type of transfusion. Although a transfusion is unlikely to have major effects on genotype results from a saliva sample, these time windows remove this concern.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15260, United States
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