Tsuyuki 2016 ‐ RxEACH.
Methods | Design: RT Groups: intervention (CV risk assessment and education); control (usual care) |
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Participants | Pharmacies: 56 Pharmacy worker: 723 (370 intervention; 353 control) ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Pharmacy user: high risk for CVD 723
Setting: unclear Country: Alberta, Canada |
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Interventions |
Pharmacy worker‐directed intervention: online modules on case finding, CVD and risk factors, communicating risk, lifestyle behaviours
Pharmacy worker control: it appears all pharmacists had training and saw both intervention and control patients. ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Pharmacy user‐directed intervention: medication therapy management assessment, and education including lifestyle
Pharmacy user control: usual care with no specific intervention |
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Outcomes |
Pharmacy worker: not assessed ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Pharmacy user:
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Notes | Study/intervention name: Alberta Vascular Risk Reduction Community Pharmacy Project (RxEACH) Funding source: Alberta Health, Merck Canada funds for educational materials Al Hamarneh 2017 and Al Hamarneh 2018 (cited under Tsuyuki 2016 ‐ RxEACH) also refer to this study. |
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Risk of bias | ||
Bias | Authors' judgement | Support for judgement |
Random sequence generation (selection bias) | Low risk | Central randomisation |
Allocation concealment (selection bias) | Low risk | Central randomisation |
Baseline outcome measures similar | Low risk | Similar |
Baseline characteristics similar | Low risk | Similar |
Incomplete outcome data (attrition bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Accounted for in analysis |
Blinding of outcome assessment (detection bias) All outcomes | Low risk | Objective outcome |
Protection against contamination | High risk | Pharmacists delivered both intervention and control |
Selective reporting (reporting bias) | Low risk | Not apparent |
Other bias | Low risk | None detected |
Blinding of participants and personnel (performance bias) All outcomes | High risk | Pharmacists not blinded |