Clinical Research Directory

Optimizing Medications and Lung Health in People With HIV Through Pharmacist-led Proactive E-Consults

People with HIV (PWH) continue to experience elevated risk of community-acquired pneumonia despite effective antiretroviral therapy. Pneumonia contributes to hospitalization, respiratory failure, cardiovascular complications, long-term decline in lung function, and mortality. Several modifiable factors increase this risk, including active smoking, inadequate receipt of respiratory vaccinations, and inappropriate or prolonged use of inhaled corticosteroids (ICS) or proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs). OPTIMIZE Lung-HIV is a multicenter, patient-level randomized controlled hybrid Type 1 effectiveness-implementation trial evaluating whether a proactive, pharmacist-led E-consult intervention can improve evidence-based pulmonary pharmacotherapy for PWH. Pharmacists will review electronic health records, generate tailored recommendations, and pre-enter orders related to smoking cessation pharmacotherapy, vaccinations, and deprescribing of ICS or PPIs. Providers may enact or modify recommendations as clinically appropriate. The trial will assess the proportion of recommendations enacted within 3 months (primary outcome) and at 12 months (maintenance) and will use mixed methods guided by CFIR and RE-AIM to evaluate adoption, feasibility, acceptability, and implementation barriers and facilitators.

Potassium-Competitive Acid Blocker Versus Proton Pump Inhibitor as A Part of Bismuth Based Quadruple Therapy for Treatment of Helicobacter Pylori Infection

This study aims to compare the eradication rate, safety, and patient adherence between potassium-competitive acid blockers (P-CABs) and proton pump inhibitor-based bismuth quadruple therapy in patients with Helicobacter pylori infection.