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Pharmacist Case Finding and Intervention for Vascular Prevention Trial
Sponsor: University of Alberta
Summary
Heart disease is a common and serious medical condition which causes nearly one in every three deaths worldwide every year. The factors which increase people's risk for heart disease are well-known, but there needs to be more support given to people to reduce their risk of heart disease. Pharmacists are front line primary healthcare providers who see patients more frequently than any other healthcare provider and can help people reduce their risk of heart disease. This research project aims to see whether a pharmacist-led intervention can help people reduce their risk of heart disease. The potential impact of this project is to empower people to understand how to reduce their risk of heart disease and reduce the burden of heart disease on the community.
Official title: Implementation of Pharmacist Case Finding and Intervention for Vascular Prevention (PRxOACT) Study
Key Details
Gender
All
Age Range
18 Years - Any
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment
1003
Start Date
2024-11-04
Completion Date
2027-06
Last Updated
2026-01-07
Healthy Volunteers
No
Interventions
Pharmacist-led care pathway
Participants in the intervention arm will receive the care using a shared decision-making pharmacist-led care pathway designed to guide the cardiovascular (CV) risk reduction process. The pharmacist-led care pathway is modelled after the largest CV risk reduction randomized controlled trial in a community pharmacy setting (RxEACH Study), and based upon the latest CV risk reduction guidelines, such as C-CHANGE. This pathway will be built into a computer web-based program and include step-by-step, algorithm-guided patient assessment to calculate the participant's estimated CV risk. The participant and pharmacist will be guided by the care pathway to review the participant's estimated CV risk and contributing CV risk factors and engage in shared decision-making to manage the participant's CV risk factors using lifestyle changes and/or pharmacological treatment as clinically appropriate.
Locations (1)
The University of Alberta
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada