Education and Training
Veterans Affairs Pharmacist Heart Failure Medication Titration Project 1
This is a randomized quality improvement project to evaluate the impact of an audit and feedback intervention to motivate pharmacists to provide heart failure (HF) medication management to patients in the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) Sierra Pacific region (VISN 21). The results of this project could provide guidance for how to successfully scale a pharmacist-based HF remote management program in the VHA more broadly.
Pharmacists providing clinical care as part of Patient Aligned Care Team (PACT) within VHA VISN 21 will be included. Pharmacists will be randomized to one of 3 arms in a 1:1:2 ratio: (1) monthly audit and feedback of HF medication titration activities (AF) vs. (2) educational resources and monthly notification of HF medication titration actions in addition to a list of potential patients for HF optimization (AF+) vs. (3) usual care without audit and feedback (UC). Pharmacists across all three arms will be given access to shared educational resources on HF pharmacist care and educational webinars. Six months after the intervention, rates of pharmacist HF medication titration encounters will be compared among the 3 groups.
Stanford is currently accepting patients for this trial.
Stanford Investigator(s):
Intervention(s):
- other: Audit and Feedback Emails
- other: Patient Specific Targets
- other: Educational Resources
Eligibility
Inclusion Criteria:
- Clinical pharmacists in the Veterans Health Administration that provide Patient
Aligned Care Team (PACT) care in VA Sierra Pacific Network (VISN 21)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Excluded per pharmacist supervisor decision
Ages Eligible for Study
N/A - N/A
Genders Eligible for Study
All
Now accepting new patients
Contact Information
Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford,
CA
94305
Alexander T Sandhu, MD, MS
650-723-4000
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