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Ma Y, Ockene IS, Rosal MC, et al. Randomized Trial of a Pharmacist-Delivered Intervention for Improving Lipid-Lowering Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease. Cholesterol. 2010;2010:383281doi: 10.1155/2010/383281.
Ma, Y., Ockene, I. S., Rosal, M. C., Merriam, P. A., Ockene, J. K., & Gandhi, P. J. (2010). Randomized Trial of a Pharmacist-Delivered Intervention for Improving Lipid-Lowering Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease. Cholesterol, 2010383281. https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/383281
Ma, Yunsheng, et al. "Randomized Trial of a Pharmacist-Delivered Intervention for Improving Lipid-Lowering Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease." Cholesterol vol. 2010 (2010): 383281. doi: https://doi.org/10.1155/2010/383281
Ma Y, Ockene IS, Rosal MC, Merriam PA, Ockene JK, Gandhi PJ. Randomized Trial of a Pharmacist-Delivered Intervention for Improving Lipid-Lowering Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease. Cholesterol. 2010;2010:383281. doi: 10.1155/2010/383281. Epub 2010 Aug 17. PMID: 21490915; PMCID: PMC3065810.
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Cholesterol. 2010;2010:383281. doi: 10.1155/2010/383281. Epub 2010 Aug 17.

Randomized Trial of a Pharmacist-Delivered Intervention for Improving Lipid-Lowering Medication Adherence among Patients with Coronary Heart Disease.

Cholesterol

Yunsheng Ma, Ira S Ockene, Milagros C Rosal, Philip A Merriam, Judith K Ockene, Pritesh J Gandhi

Affiliations

  1. Division of Preventive and Behavioral Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655, USA.

PMID: 21490915 PMCID: PMC3065810 DOI: 10.1155/2010/383281

Abstract

A randomized trial of a pharmacist-delivered intervention (PI) versus usual care (UC) was conducted; 689 subjects with known coronary heart disease were recruited from cardiac catheterization laboratories. Participants in the PI condition received 5 pharmacist-delivered telephone counseling calls post-hospital discharge. At one year, 65% in the PI condition and 60% in the UC condition achieved an LDL-C level <100 mg/dL (P = .29); mean statin adherence was 0.88 in the PI, and 0.90 in the UC (P = .51). The highest percentage of those who reached the LDL-C goal were participants who used statins as opposed to those who did not use statins (67% versus 58%, P = .05). However, only 53% and 56% of the patients in the UC and PI conditions, respectively, were using statins. We conclude that a pharmacist-delivered intervention aimed only at improving patient adherence is unlikely to positively affect outcomes. Efforts must be oriented towards influencing physicians to increase statin prescription rates.

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