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Pourrat X, Berthy E, Dupuis A, Barbier L, Buchler M, Guillon LG, Monmousseau F, Ruspini E, Salamé E, Houdard SB, Giraudeau B. Implementing a personalized pharmaceutical plan in kidney or liver transplant patients: study protocol for a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial (GRePH). Trials 2021; 22:782. [PMID: 34749777 PMCID: PMC8573912 DOI: 10.1186/s13063-021-05749-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2021] [Accepted: 10/25/2021] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Nowadays, the main challenge of transplantation is the improvement of long-term care, aiming at reducing treatment-related complications and at decreasing rejection rates. Patients’ adherence to both treatment and hygienic-dietary measures is mandatory to achieve these objectives. Adherence to immunosuppressive drugs is estimated to be only 70%. We hypothesized that the implementation of a personalized pharmaceutical plan (PPP) would increase adherence and therefore graft survival. Methods/design This study is a stepped-wedge cluster randomized trial with transplantation units defining clusters. Twelve clusters from 10 university hospitals were recruited. All centres started on the same day in the control phase. Every 7 weeks, one centre will switch to the intervention phase and remain there until the end of inclusions. We plan to recruit 1716 kidney and/or liver transplant patients. The intervention phase consists in setting up the PPP: development of the patient’s hospital and community pharmaceutical follow-up. In the hospital, the pharmacist will carry out drug reconciliation upon admission, daily pharmaceutical follow-up of prescriptions and pharmaceutical interviews with the patient in order to explain the modalities of taking immunosuppressive drugs and hygienic-dietary measures. After hospitalization, during the post-transplantation year, pharmaceutical meetings will take place, prior to medical consultations in order to check the patient’s understanding of the prescription, his adherence, to remind them of hygienic-dietary measures and to look for adverse effects. The hospital pharmacist will also be in charge of establishing a close link with the community pharmacist (CP) and general practitioner, especially providing discharge medication reconciliation, an e-learning and a checklist. Moreover, prior to each pharmaceutical consultation, the hospital pharmacist will contact the CP to discuss patient adherence. The primary outcome is adherence to immunosuppressive treatments 1 year post-transplantation assessed by using the BAASIS questionnaire and the health insurance data from the national health data system. A medico-economic study will measure the efficiency of this plan. Discussion GRePH aims to increase adherence of liver and/or kidney transplant patients to their immunosuppressive therapies in order to reduce transplant rejections. To this end, a new clinical pharmacy model, the PPP, will be set up in 10 university hospitals. Trial registration ClinicalTrials.gov NCT04295928. Registered on 5 March 2020 Supplementary Information The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s13063-021-05749-w.
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Affiliation(s)
- Xavier Pourrat
- Pharmacy Department, Pharm D, Tours University Hospital, 2 boulevard Tonnelle, 37044, 09, Tours Cedex, France
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- Pharmacy Department, Pharm D, Tours University Hospital, 2 boulevard Tonnelle, 37044, 09, Tours Cedex, France.
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- Biology-Pharmacy-Public Health Department, University Hospital of Poitiers, 2 rue de la 9 Milétrie, 86021, Poitiers Cedex, France
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- Digestive Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France
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- Nephrology Department, Tours University Hospital, 2 boulevard Tonnelle, 37044, 09, Tours Cedex, France
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- Department of Medical Information, Epidemiology and Medical Economy, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France.,INSERM U966, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- Health-economic Evaluation Unit, University Hospital of Tours, Tours, France.,EA 7505 Education, Ethics, Health, University of Tours, Tours, France
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- Regional Union of Healthcare Professionals Pharmacists of the Greater East of France, 4 rue Piroux, Nancy, France
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- Digestive Surgery and Liver Transplantation, Tours University Hospital, Tours, France
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- Health-economic Evaluation Unit, University Hospital of Tours, Tours, France.,EA 7505 Education, Ethics, Health, University of Tours, Tours, France
| | - Bruno Giraudeau
- Université de Tours, Université de Nantes, INSERM, SPHERE U1246, Tours, France.,INSERM CIC1415, CHRU de Tours, Tours, France
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