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The role of the pharmacist in the team care of hospitalized patients with Chronic Brochitis or Emphysema

Pharmaceutical care Programme for inpatients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Southern Brazil - PHARBE: PHARmaceutical Care Programme for Inpatients with COPD in a Tertiary Teaching Hospital in Southern Brazil

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Interventional
Source
REBEC
Registry ID
RBR-5bw2wt
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2012-05-01
Start date
2012-04-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2025-10-27

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

75 patients will be randomized to control and 75 to intervention group. Control Group- usual care provided by assistential team (pneumology or internal medicine service) without pharmacist participati
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Sponsors

Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - UFRGS
Lead Sponsor
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
Collaborator

Eligibility

Age
18 Years to 100 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Inpatients with exacerbation of COPD at HCPA.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: difficulty of understanding (absence of response to verbal commands, severe psychiatric illness, retardation, blindness), psychiatric illness with corresponding CID; metastatic desease; decompensated severe heart disease.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Rate of hospitalization due to exacerbation of COPD, observed by the medical records.

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
Quality of life observed by the Saint George Respiratory Questionnaire and SF 12v2.;Knowledge of and techniques for using prescribed inhalation devices evaluated by questionnaire and demonstration of inhalation technique.;Drug-related problems rates (effectiveness, necessity, safety) using the Dader Method adapted for the sample.

Countries

Brazil

Contacts

Public ContactJuliane Silva

Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre - UFRGS

Julianemonks@hotmail.com+55-053-3359-8304

Outcome results

None listed

Source: REBEC (via WHO ICTRP)