Referral to Pharmacists - Ambulance Clinician Experience Survey

NCT04085939 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: YASRD123
• Study Type: observational
• Target: 330
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Falls in people aged 65 years and over are a common reason for calling the emergency ambulance service. Falls can be serious, with about 1 in 20 people having to be taken to hospital because they have been injured. Thankfully, in more than 4 out of 10 cases, people are not seriously injured and can be left at home. However, it is important that the reason for the fall is found and future falls are prevented where possible. Yorkshire Ambulance Service can already make a referral to another local service to get specialist practical help for falls prevention when people are left at home after a fall. Research has shown that the safe use of medicines can prevent future falls, but that did not form. Now a new service has been set up for Yorkshire Ambulance Service to refer patients to the Leeds General Practice (GP) Confederation. A pharmacist working in the patients GP surgery will undertake a review of the patient's use of their medicines. However, it is unknown how ambulance staff identify patients who may be at risk of future falls due to medicines being taken or issues with medicines management at home. This data is not currently collected in any ambulance patient records. It is also not known what their current practice is when a patient who is not managing their medicines well is identified. A literature search has revealed no papers on this topic. This research survey seeks to understand how ambulance clinicians identify and assist patients who are having difficulty in managing their medicines. Therefore, the results of this study are likely to provide new knowledge which will be generalisable to United Kingdom (UK) ambulance service practice.

Conditions

Pharmacist-Patient Relations; Fall Patients

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Weighted average of factors that identify patients having difficulty managing their medicines, ranked in order of importance by ambulance clinicians

  Baseline

Interventions

Online survey OTHER

Anonymous survey using the online survey tool, JotForm

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)
• Sampling Method: Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

Clinical staff working operationally, providing frontline ambulance care in Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust during the PREFACES project (24th May, 2019 to 31st May 2020)

You may qualify if:

• Clinical staff working operationally, providing frontline ambulance care in Yorkshire Ambulance Service National Health Service (NHS) Trust during the PREFACES project (24th May, 2019 to 31st May 2020)

You may not qualify if:

• Clinical staff NOT working operationally, providing frontline ambulance care in Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust
• Non-clinical staff

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust: lead

Study Sites (1)

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF2 0XQ, United Kingdom

RECRUITING

Central Study Contacts

Richard Pilbery

CONTACT

+447463734823; r.pilbery@nhs.net

Fiona Bell

CONTACT

+441924584224; fiona.bell7@nhs.net

Study Design

• Study Type: observational
• Observational Model: COHORT
• Time Perspective: PROSPECTIVE
• Sponsor Type: OTHER GOV
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 9, 2019
• First Posted: September 11, 2019
• Study Start: September 30, 2019
• Primary Completion: June 30, 2020
• Study Completion: September 30, 2020
• Last Updated: November 25, 2019

Record last verified: 2019-11

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

GB (1)