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. 2021 Sep 8;2021(9):CD013381. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD013381.pub2

RBR‐5bw2wt.

Methods Study design: RCT
Duration: 52 weeks
Location: Brazil
Participants Population: 75 people with COPD
Baseline characteristics: NR
Inclusion criteria: inpatients with AECOPD
Exclusion criteria: cognitive impairment, psychiatric illness, metastatic disease, severe heart disease
Interventions Treatment arms
  1. Pharmacist‐led care programme (modified Dader method for hospitalised people with COPD) after discharge from hospital + usual care

  2. Usual care (pneumology or internal medicine services without pharmacist involvement)

Outcomes Primary outcome: rate of hospitalisation due to AECOPD
Secondary outcomes: quality of life, knowledge and techniques for inhaled medication, drug‐related issue rates
Notes Funding: Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre – UFRGS, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul