An interventional study of Pharmaceutical care in multiprofessional collaboration in Rheumatoid Arthritis, sponsored by Hospices Civils de Lyon. Recruiting at 2 sites in France. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2025-10-02.
Sponsored by Hospices Civils de Lyon · Not applicable, Interventional, and Health services research
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a public health issue because of its frequency, its functional consequences, the risk of morbidity and mortality and the costs incurred. A collaborative multiprofessional intervention initiated during hospitalization and continued after hospital discharge (ambulatory care ) would improve medication adherence in RA and therefore the health status of patients.
Main objective:
To compare, 12 months after the index hospitalization or consultation, the impact of pharmaceutical care provided in multiprofessional collaboration (pharmacist-physician) on medication adherence to disease-modifying treatments of patients with RA compared to usual care without pharmaceutical care and specific multi-professional collaboration.
Medication adherence to disease-modifying treatments will be assessed by the rate of coverage of disease-modifying treatments (or Medication Possession Ratio (MPR)).
METHODOLOGY: Interventional, multicenter, controlled, randomized, open label study, comparing in parallel 2 groups of patients with rheumatoid arthritis initially hospitalized in a rheumatology department (pharmaceutical care provided in multiprofessional collaboration (pharmacist-physician), initiated in the hospital and continued after hospital discharge (ambulatory care) vs traditional follow-up.
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This study's planned enrollment of 200 is above the median of 94 across 1,984 interventional studies indexed under Arthritis, Rheumatoid.
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Exclusion Criteria:
Medication reconciliation (hospital admission and discharge), disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARD) treatment information interview and 2 motivational interviews (after discharge, at 2 months and 6 months after the inclusion).
Other: Pharmaceutical care in multiprofessional collaboration
Usual follow-up during the 12-month follow-up.
In addition to usual practices: medication reconciliation and pharmaceutical motivational interviews with patients (discharge, 2 \& 6 months). Objective of medication reconciliation (admission): to detect and resolve unintended medication discrepancies between home medication list and treatment and hospital admission medication orders. Objective of medication reconciliation (discharge): to obtain an exact list of medication, to explain the medication modifications during hospitalization. Objective of the Disease-Modifying Antirheumatic Drugs information interview (discharge): to provide information and to answer questions on the management of treatment, to deal with practical situations to assess patients' self-management skills. Objective of interviews (2 \& 6 months): to evaluate medications and their daily management, benefits and problems that patient may encounter, to assess the patient's ability to manage the treatment.
Medication adherence to rheumatoid arthritis treatment
The primary endpoint is the rate of adherent patients to DMARDs after 12 months of follow-up assessed by the Medication Possession Ratio (MPR). The MPR is calculated for each drug: total quantity of dose units dispensed compared to the theoretical quantity of dose units necessary for compliance with the prescribed dosage. The calculation will be made from: * dispensing data collected from the patient's community pharmacist (control and intervention group), * prescription data from all prescriptions (between Month 0 and Month 12), reported by the patient during the visit to Month 12, * and hospitalization data from the medicalized information system program (PMSI:) and the patient log. A patient is considered adherent to his treatment if the MPR is greater than or equal to 80%. For patients with more than one DMARD drug prescribed, they will be considered adherent if the MPR of each DMARD is greater than or equal to 80%.
Time frame: Month 12
Clinical criteria - Evolution of the Disease Activity Score DAS28
A Disease Activity Score (DAS) indicates the severity of rheumatoid arthritis disease activity at a given moment in time. It is calculated based on several different factors, including lab results, patient feedback, and joint swelling and tenderness. A traditional DAS score requires examining 44 specific joints. The DAS28 score is arrived at using: The number of swollen joints (out of the 28), The number of tender joints (out of the 28), The C reactive protein (CRP) or erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) lab test results Answers to a patient health assessment questionnaire A mathematical formula is used to calculate the overall score. DAS28 can range from 0 to 9.4. Generally, a DAS28 score of: More than 5.1 indicates high disease activity Between 3.2 and 5.1 indicates moderate disease activity Between 2.6 and less than 3.2 indicates low disease activity Lower than 2.6 indicates disease remission
Time frame: Day 0 and Month 12
Clinical criteria - Number of Rheumatoid Arthritis-related re-hospitalizations
Number of Rheumatoid Arthritis-related re-hospitalizations between Month 0 and Month 12
Time frame: Month 0 and Month 12
Clinical criteria - Number of adverse effects related to drug treatments leading to hospitalization.
Number of adverse effects related to drug treatments leading to hospitalization between Month 0 and Month 12.
Time frame: Month 0 and Month 12
Functional and quality of life criteria - Evolution of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) score
The Evolution of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) is an 24-item questionnaire. Each question is assigned the following score: 0 = without any difficulty ; 1 = with some difficulty ; 2 = with great difficulty ; 3 = unable to do so The rating for each of the 8 domains is the one corresponding to the highest score for the questions in that domain. The notion of need for help from a third person and/or use of devices can modify this rating system. In this case, the score for the area concerned must be at least equal to 2. The functional index is the sum of the ratings of the various domains divided by the number of domains evaluated (normally 8, but less in case of totally missing data for a particular domain). The score obtained is between 0 and 3. The higher the score, the more disabling the pathology.
Time frame: Day 0 and Month 12
Functional and quality of life criteria - Evolution of the EuroQol 5-Dimensional score (EQ-5D)
The EuroQol 5-Dimensional score (EQ-5D) is a standardised measure of health-related quality of life. The EQ-5D descriptive system comprises five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain and discomfort, and anxiety and depression. The evaluation component requires a patient to record their overall health status using a visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS). Following assessment the scores from the descriptive component can be reported as a five digit number ranging from 11111 (full health) to 33333/55555 (worst health). A number of methods exist for analysing these five digit profiles. Frequently they are converted to a single utility index using country specific value sets, which can be used in the clinical and economic evaluation of health care as well as in population health surveys.
Time frame: Day 0 and Month 12
Criteria for patient behavior in relation to their disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) - Medication Possession Ratio for each disease-modifying antirheumatic drug (DMARD)
The Medication Possession Ratio is calculated for each drug: total quantity of dose units dispensed compared to the theoretical quantity of dose units necessary for compliance with the prescribed dosage. The calculation will be made from: * dispensing data collected from the patient's community pharmacist (control and intervention group), * prescription data from all prescriptions (between Month 0 and Month 12), reported by the patient during the visit to Month 12, * and hospitalization data from the medicalized information system program (PMSI:) and the patient log.
Time frame: Month 12
Criteria for patient behavior in relation to their disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) - Adherent rate according to the Compliance Questionnaire on Rheumatology (CQR)
The Compliance Questionnaire on Rheumatology (CQR) is a 19 item, self-administered questionnaire that was developed with the aim of correctly identifying patients that were classified as "low" adhering participants (taking \<80% of their medication correctly). The four point Likert answering scale ranges from; "Definitely don't agree" (scored 1) to "Definitely agree" (scored 4) with lower scores indicating lower levels of adherence.
Time frame: Month 12
Criteria for patient behavior in relation to their disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) - Evolution of the BioSecure score or Knowledge score (Methotrexate and/or anti-JAK)
The BioSecure questionnaire assess self-management skills and knowledge and patient safety under biotherapy. It has 55 questions regarding 24 areas of competence. The final score is between 0 and 100, a high score reflecting better knowledge. Questionnaire about Methotrexate assess self-management skills and knowledge and patient safety under Methotrexate. It has 7 questions and 1 scenario (to be chosen by the doctor out of 5). One point is awarded for each correct answer (refer to the correction of the questionnaire). Total out of 100: (score x 100)/ 31. The final score is between 0 and 100, a high score reflecting better knowledge. Questionnaire about anti-JAK assess self-management skills and knowledge and patient safety under anti-JAK. It has 8 questions and 6 scenario. One point is awarded for each correct answer (refer to the correction of the questionnaire). Total out of 100: sum x 1.92. The final score is between 0 and 100, a high score reflecting better knowledge.
Time frame: Day 0 and Month 12
Criteria for patient behavior in relation to their disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) - Evolution of the Beliefs about Medicines Questionnaire (BMQ) score
The BMQ consists of two five-item scales assessing patients' beliefs about the necessity of prescribed medication for controlling their disease and their concerns about potential adverse consequences of taking it. Respondents indicate their degree of agreement with each statement on a five-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 = strongly disagree to 5 = strongly agree. Scores obtained for individual items within both scales are summed. Thus, total scores for the Necessity and Concerns Scales range from 5 to 25. Higher scores indicate stronger beliefs.
Time frame: Day 0 and Month 12
Economic criterion
Costs of managing the two strategies.
Time frame: Month 12
Intervention implementation and acceptability criteria - Satisfaction of pharmacists and general practitioners through semi-structured interviews
Satisfaction of pharmacists and general practitioners through semi-structured interviews at Month 12
Time frame: Month 12
Intervention implementation and acceptability criteria - Duration of follow-up interviews measured by community pharmacist
Duration of follow-up interviews measured by community pharmacist at Month 2 and Month 6
Time frame: Month 2 and Month 6
Intervention implementation and acceptability criteria - Number of patients having benefited from a complete follow-up by the town pharmacist (participation in the 2 scheduled meetings to reinforce medication adherence)
Number of patients having benefited from a complete follow-up by the town pharmacist (participation in the 2 scheduled meetings to reinforce medication adherence)
Time frame: Month 12
Intervention implementation and acceptability criteria - Patient satisfaction by questionnaire
Patient satisfaction assessed by a 6\_item questionnaire completed by patients in the interventional group. The 6 items are rated on a 4-dimension Likert-scale : "Not at all satisfied", "Not very satisfied", "Quite satisfied", "Completely satisfied". Answers will be the subject of a descriptive analysis.
Time frame: Month 12
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