Community pharmacy medicines management (CPMM) is a unique point to introduce a structured intervention process into the relationship study between the community pharmacist, the patient, and the general practitioner. The study is designed as a randomized controlled trial (RCT).
Objectives of Community Pharmacy Management
The primary objectives of the CPMM
are:
• Compare the proportion of the patients receiving
appropriate treatment, as defined by currently available evidence and
guidelines, between intervention and control groups at baseline and follow-up.
• Quantity “Health gain” by describing the change in the
patient’s overall health status after the intervention as defined by standard
measures, both general and condition-specific.
• Conduct an economic evaluation of the medicine’s
management intervention (including estimates of drug cost changes).
The secondary objectives are:
• To describe the opinions of the stakeholders (patients,
general practitioners, and their staff and community pharmacists) of medicines
management before and after its introduction.
• To describe the role of over-the-counter (OTC)
medicines in the overall patient management of this condition.