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Rationale and Design of the Pharmacist Intervention for Low Literacy in Cardiovascular Disease (PILL-CVD) Study
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medication errors adverse drug events common hospital discharge due changes medication regimens suboptimal discharge instructions prolonged time followup pharmacistbased interventions may effective promoting safe effective use medications especially among highrisk patients low health literacythe pharmacist intervention low literacy cardiovascular disease pillcvd study randomized controlled trial conducted 2 academic centersvanderbilt university hospital brigham womens hospital patients admitted acute coronary syndrome acute decompensated heart failure randomly assigned usual care intervention intervention consisted pharmacistassisted medication reconciliation inpatient pharmacist counseling lowliteracy adherence aids tailored telephone followup discharge primary outcome occurrence serious medication errors first 30 days hospital discharge secondary outcomes health care utilization diseasespecific quality life costeffectiveness enrollment completed september 2009 total 862 patients enrolled 430 patients randomly assigned receive intervention analyses determine whether intervention effective reducing serious medication errors particularly patients low health literacythe pillcvd study designed reduce serious medication errors hospitalization pharmacistbased intervention intervention effective inform health care facilities use pharmacistassisted medication reconciliation inpatient counseling lowliteracy adherence aids patient followup discharge clinical trial registration clinicaltrialsgov identifier nct00632021