Does pharmacist intervention improve prescribing and pain control?

• Research type

  Research Study

• Full title

  How does the pharmacist led consultation and advice in a chronic pain clinic impact upon analgesic prescribing, analgesic use and patient’s outcomes.?

• IRAS ID

  181743

• Contact name

  Peter Farley

• Contact email

  peter.farley@nhs.net

• Sponsor organisation

  University of Birmingham

• Duration of Study in the UK

  0 years, 11 months, 27 days

• Research summary

  To analyse the information provided by a cohort of patients attending, the specialist, non-prescribing pharmacist's clinic, within the Chronic Pain Service offered in the Southern Division of Staffordshire and Stoke on Trent Partnership NHS Trust.Data will be collected on two occasions, four months apart.

  Data collected will include:
  1. Drugs prescribed and taken by the patient
  2. Pain score using a numeric rating scale 0-10
  3. Score from Self complete version of the Leeds assessment of neuropathic symptoms and signs (S-LANSS)
  4. Data from the patient's completion of the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) with regard to efficacy of and attitude towards analgesia
  5. Patients reported weight (above or below 50kg).

  The aim of the analysis is to investigate, within this cohort of patients, whether advice from the pharmacist to both the patients and the GP leads to an improvement in patients' pain and outcomes as well as prescribing, in relation to to current guidelines.

• REC name

  London - Brighton & Sussex Research Ethics Committee

• REC reference

  16/LO/0353

• Date of REC Opinion

  22 Feb 2016

• REC opinion

  Favourable Opinion