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| Name | Class |
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| University of Illinois at Chicago | OTHER |
| University of California, Los Angeles | OTHER |
| University of Washington | OTHER |
| The Cleveland Clinic |
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Specialty medications often have dispensing restrictions which can be dictated by manufacturer limited distribution strategies, narrow insurance networks, or a combination of both. Unfortunately, this may result in patients being required to use 2 or more pharmacies to fill their prescription medications; this is referred to as multiple pharmacy use (MPU). The investigators' plan is to administer a survey to patients who have been prescribed one or more specialty medications to evaluate the prevalence of MPU in this population as well as to investigate patients' attitudes about MPU and potential factors increasing the likelihood of MPU
The investigators will identify patients from participating member sites via a review of prescribing records for specific specialty medications. Patients will be contacted via telephone to explain the purpose and risk of the study. Consented patients will then be asked a series of 11 questions about their attitudes and experience with taking and obtaining their specialty medication(s). Additional demographic and clinical information about patients will be collected via chart review.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Specialty Pharmacy Patient | Experimental | Patients who have been prescribed at least one selected specialty medication |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Survey | Other | Multiple Pharmacy Use Survey |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Percentage of Patients using Multiple Pharmacies | Of all patients consented, the percentage of patients using more than one pharmacy to obtain their medications | Within one year of study initiation |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Self-reported adherence and barriers | Patient response to questions about having missed doses in the past month | Within one year of study initiation |
| Method of obtaining medications | Patient response to questions about distance from pharmacy and how prescriptions are primarily obtained |
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| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Whisler, PharmD | Johns Hopkins University | Principal Investigator |
| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Johns Hopkins Hospital | Baltimore | Maryland | 21287 | United States |
De-identified data from individual study sites will be collected and stored together either via a password-protected Excel file or Qualtrics.
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| ID | Term |
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| D011795 | Surveys and Questionnaires |
| ID | Term |
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| D003625 | Data Collection |
| D004812 | Epidemiologic Methods |
| D008919 | Investigative Techniques |
| D017531 | Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms |
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| OTHER |
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| Within one year of study initiation |
| Experience with obtaining and administering medications | Patient response to questions about how easy it is for patients to obtain and administer medication | Within one year of study initiation |
| D011787 | Quality of Health Care |
| D017530 | Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation |
| D011634 | Public Health |
| D004778 | Environment and Public Health |