Medication monitoring in a nurse-led respiratory outpatient clinic: pragmatic randomised trial of the West Wales Adverse Drug Reaction Profile.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To assess the clinical effect of medication monitoring using the West Wales Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Profile for Respiratory Medicine.

Design

Single-site parallel-arm pragmatic trial using stratified randomisation.

Setting

Nurse-led respiratory outpatient clinic in general hospital in South Wales.

Participants

54 patients with chronic respiratory disease receiving bronchodilators, corticosteroids or leukotriene receptor antagonists.

Intervention

Following initial observation of usual nursing care, we allocated participants at random to receive at follow up: either the West Wales ADR Profile for Respiratory Medicine in addition to usual care ('intervention arm' with 26 participants); or usual care alone ('control arm' with 28 participants).

SUBMITTER: Gabe ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4010491 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature