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Notre Dame Stadium
Purpose: Competition
Capacity: 80,795
Attendance Record: Sold out for 249 consecutive games
Sq. Ft. : 370, 371 gross
Year Opened: 1930
Architect: Osborn engineering company
Year Added: 1997
Architect: Ellerbe Becket, Inc., of Kansas City, Mo.
Surface Type: Field Turf
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For all the legendary players and memorable moments it has hosted over the past 449 games, Notre Dame Stadium has unquestionably developed a lore of its own. The stadium, which celebrated its 85th anniversary in 2015, continues to be one of the most recognizable and revered structures in the world of sport.
It was the success of Knute Rockne's football teams that prompted the addition of the original Notre Dame Stadium to the University's athletics plant back in 1930. The spirit that was imbued by that Rockne era – and has been sustained by seven Heisman Trophy winners and dozens more All-Americans who have competed there – has changed little in eight decades of football at Notre Dame Stadium.
Originally designed by Osborn Engineering Company – the same firm that designed Comiskey Park in Chicago and New York's Yankee Stadium and Polo Grounds – the total cost of construction exceeded $750,000 and it was patterned on a smaller scale after the University of Michigan's stadium. The 1996 season was the final one played with the customary 59,075 fans at Notre Dame Stadium. A $50-million expansion adding over 21,000 seats was completed before the 1997 kickoff, bringing capacity to its present-day 80,795.
Though Rockne had a chance to coach in the new facility only in its initial season of use, he took a personal hand in its design. The sod from Cartier Field was transplanted into the new Stadium, but Rockne insisted on its use for football only. He kept the area between the field and the stands small to keep sideline guests, as he called them, to a minimum – and he personally supervised the parking and traffic system that basically is the same one in use today.
Notre Dame Stadium, maybe the most renowned college football facility in the nation, now qualifies as one of the most up to date as well, thanks to a major addition and renovations that boosted its capacity to more than 80,000 beginning with the 1997 campaign. The 1996 season was the final one played with the customary 59,075 fans at Notre Dame Stadium. A $50-million expansion adding over 21,000 seats was completed before the 1997 season kickoff. To upgrade on the 1997 renovation, two new scoreboards were installed in both end zones before the 2009 season that utilize the latest in LED-screen technologies.
The Irish have played in front of sellout crowds at Notre Dame Stadium in 249 consecutive games and 297 of the last 298 home contests have been held before capacity crowds. Every home game starting with the final two home dates in 1964 has been a sellout except one – a 1973 Thanksgiving Day matchup with Air Force. Notre Dame has played 449 games inside Notre Dame Stadium and compiled a 335-109-5 record (.752).


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Alaska Airlines Celebrates Merger With Virgin America by Showcasing Unexpected, Brilliant Pairings
Mekanism's first work for brand
In any great story, or with any great meal, opposites tend to attract. Salty and sweet, comedy and romance, chocolate and bacon, itsy-bitsy wiener dogs and massive lions. And now Alaska Airlines and Virgin America.
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Earlier in the week, Alaska celebrated the union with a few fun initiatives at different airports across the country. The airline handed out donuts topped with bacon and caramel doused in salt, again showing the idea that while the pairings may seem unlikely, they somehow end up working together in the best way.
The campaign also includes some out of home work, digital display, print and a big social push.
Agency: Mekanism
Client: Alaska Airlines
President/CEO: Jason Harris
Executive Creative Director: Tommy Means
EVP, Head of Creative/Design: Tom Lyons
Creative Directors: Matt Stafford & Hart Rusen
Art Directors: Patrick Nelson & Sean Hamilton
EVP, Managing Director: Michael Zlatoper
Director of Brand Management: Anna Boyarsky
Brand Director: Caroline Paik
Brand Manager: Mellie Lutz
Head of Planning, West: Jeremy Daly
Communications Strategy Director: John-James Richardson
Head of Production: Kati Haberstock
Director of Print Production/Art Buying: Frank Lewis
Producer: Megan Ubovich
Print Producer: James Sablan
Senior Production Artist: Jose Paz
Print Project Manager: Mariah Gill-Erhart
Stock Footage House: STALKR
Stock Producer: George Alvarez
Stock Executive Producer: Carly Lagoda
Music Producer: Janet Billig Rich
Editorial: Nomad
Editor: Jared Coller
Assistant Editors: Collin Ketterer, Dani Weltman
Post Producer: Gabrielle Page
Post Executive Producer: Susye Melega
Sound Engineer: Nomad Editing Co. / Tom Stamatio
Motion Graphics: Nomad VFX / Josh Kirschenbaum
Color: CO3 / Dave Hussey
Print House: XYZ Prepress House


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- Rebekah Salwasser, executive director, Red Sox Foundation
Pedro Martínez, pitcher (1998–2004), Boston Red Sox; inductee, National Baseball Hall of Fame (2015); eight-time All-Star; three-time winner, Cy Young Award; sports analyst; and author
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The Yard
The Yard is located at 101 Thedford Street, in Fulton, Kentucky. The Grandstand is covered and has 8 overhead fans to circulate the air. A Concession Stand is available for purchase of food and drink. The field uses an electronic scoreboard and is well lighted for night games. There are ample parking areas around the field. We are handicapped accessible and have wheelchair accommodations.
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- Left: 352 ft
- Left Center: 351 ft
- Center: 361 ft
- Right Center: 340 ft
- Right: 215 ft
There is 8′ wooded fence from the left field foul line to the scoreboard located in left center-field. The scoreboard is approximately 14′ high. From the scoreboard in left center-field to right center-field we have a 12′ wooden fence. From left center-field to the right field foul line, a 12′ wooden link fence has attached to it a 30′ tall netting making the fence 42′ high and is referred to as "Little Monster."
The Concession Stand
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General Admission Tickets can be purchased at the gate for $5.00. There are 300 Bleacher Seats in the Grandstand available for general admission. Children age 6 and under are FREE with a paid adult.
In 2007 two Open-Air Patio Decks were added, between each dugout & lower deck Grandstand seating. Bring a lawn chair and sit close to the action for General Admission price.
Reserved Box Seats
Reserved Box Seats consist of 105 chairs on the first 5 rows of the Grandstand. The seats are close to the action, behind home plate and down each foul line. These seats are priced at $8.00 each and reservations can be made by calling 270.472.0843. Check the seating chart to see chair locations and call for availability.
Season Tickets
Season Tickets are priced at $125 each for 20 home games (excludes playoffs) and are located in the Reserved Box Seats section. General Admission season tickets, the Boarding Pass, are 20 home games for only $55 (excludes playoffs), and can also be used to admit more than one person to a single game. The Boarding Pass is simply punched to reduce the total number of games left on the pass. Call 270.472.0843 for purchase of Season Tickets and Boarding Passes
Party Deck
Party Deck is located in Left Field and is available for rent. Groups can BBQ their own food and enjoy the game from a field prospective. Deck rental for a single game is $125, or if a group or individual will feed the team after the game the deck is FREE. For more information and scheduling of the Party Deck, contact Kim Kimbell at 270-994-1333.
Promo Nights
Promo Nights are available for groups with less than or equal to 25 are priced at $7 each, and for groups of 26 or more, the price is $6 each. This covers general admission to the game and each ticket holder receives 1 drink and 1 hot dog from the concession stand. The benefits for the group's Sponsor are:
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- Please contact 270.472.0843 for details and group reservations.
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- Game play is under NCAA with the exception rules and guidelines of the wood bat. Umpires are NCAA certified.
- No alcohol drinks allowed inside the grandstand and fenced area of the field.
- No smoking inside the grandstand.
- No personal food or drink can be bought into the grandstand or playing area. There is a Concession Stand available for purchase of food and drink.


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On Tuesday night, James Corden's aired his exclusive Carpool Karaoke interview with none other than Jennifer Lopez on CBS. The 13 minute and 37 seconds interview commenced with Corden thanking Lopez for riding with him to work in the carpool lane. The two go on to discuss a plethora of topics including her assets, love life, and of course relive some of her most popular songs.
Check out highlights from the interview below.
On what do people call the Bronx native
Corden: When you're judging on American Idol, do they call you Jennifer or do they call you Jlo or do they call you Jenny? What does one call you? What should I be calling you?
Lopez: You can call me Jennifer. A lot of people call me Jlo. I get a lot of Jen.
On whether or not Lopez insured her assets
Corden: This is something I read that I do not know if it's true or not, but did you insure your butt for a million dollars?
Lopez: No. There is no such thing. I think there is a place in your homeland [England], where you can insure certain things you know like parts of your body seriously. I think that exits, I've heard that not here [America] I don't think.
On her love life
Corden: What's your cut off, what's the youngest guy you've dated?
Lopez: Oh I don't know, but you know they have to be legal…..I'm not that kind of girl. I am a relationship kind of girl. I'm so monogamous it's stupid.
Corden: What's the most romantic thing you've ever done?
Lopez: The most romantic that I've ever done or someone has done for me or that has happened?
Corden: Both of those questions to be honest with you
Lopez: So many good romantic moments
Corden: Like what?
Lopez: I've had some amazing proposals. You know I've been married a couple of times. I'm still trying to get it right.
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"I was worried the divorce was going to destroy my relationship with my children, but it actually ended up improving it. Before the divorce, I was a working father. Work always took priority. I knew that if I had to skip a soccer game for a work meeting, my wife would be able to take the kids to the game. After the divorce, I only got to see my kids every Tuesday night, every other Monday, and every other weekend. It completely changed my mindset-- I went from being a working father to being a parent. If there was a work obligation during my time with the kids, I had to change it. I couldn't spend weekend mornings at the gym anymore, because that would cut into my time. I began cooking dinner on my nights so we could all eat together. The time restraints that the divorce put on me caused me to completely realign my priorities."
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You see, when I discovered my husband's last girlfriend (and to qualify that, I can't say for sure she will forever be his 'last' girlfriend - she's just the last one this wife had to put up with), I had a decision to make.
When I'd discovered the affair before that one several years before, I told him then that if he ever turned his back on having an honest conversation with me and chose instead to take a vacation between someone else's legs, he and I would be through. There would be no negotiation. And here we were again.
I sat there at my computer that day, shaking and sick, going over and over in my head all the little red flags that finally clicked into place with one innocuous email he sent me that just so happened to mention his girlfriend's name for the very first time (she was a coworker) and I realized that I had to hold it together. It was my daughter's seventh birthday, and she was in the other room, waiting for me to make her breakfast before school. My son was four and a half, and he was waiting for the same before he climbed on the bus to his special ed classes. I didn't have time to fall apart.
And I couldn't just write their father - and nearly two decades of marriage - off that easily. Not while I was looking right at them.
I did have a choice.
When I'd discovered his previous affair, all those years before, we "worked through it" together. We never saw a counselor, or a therapist, because he didn't want to. Instead, I worked hard to "rebuild" our marriage.
He clammed up, refused to talk about any of it, and got incredibly defensive and angry any time I wanted to talk about any of it so I stopped trying to get answers. I just kept flying blind, reassuring myself that I could do all the talking for the both of us. He was never one for talking much. Finally, I gave up, reassured by the birth of our daughter (I was pregnant during that long-ago affair) and then the birth of our son.
I knew I was expendable, you see, but I never thought he'd think that they were. I never, ever thought he would voluntarily turn himself into a part-time parent. He loved his kids. For them, he would turn away from any temptation that might put his family in jeopardy. I was sure of it.
I eventually learned - the hard way - that when a man leaves (and to be fair, maybe there are women this applies to as well), he doesn't look at it as "leaving his kids." He feels like he left his wife. His marriage.
He doesn't usually think he left his family.
He still sees his kids (often as much as their mom does), he still loves his kids. To him, he didn't lose his family at all.
Most divorced mothers I know don't see it that way. And all the post-divorce kids I know definitely don't see it that way. A family has been lost. Damage has been done.
And with that damage, two full-time parents now become two part-time parents, and for some of us, that's not by choice.
That fateful night, after my children were in bed and I was laying in our bed, wondering why he wasn't coming upstairs but not really wondering, I sorted through the pros and cons in my head. I knew the confrontation was coming - he didn't miss the fact that I was very, very not myself during our daughter's celebratory birthday dinner out. I had to figure out what I was going to say.
Were we salvageable?
Yes, he was a serial philanderer. After the previous affair came to light, I did some digging. That's when I found three more confirmed paramours and dug up a solid list of probables in addition to those.across the years. Many of you are reading this and thinking I was an idiot for giving him another chance after that all came to light, but I was ten weeks away from delivering our firstborn child and I felt like she deserved a chance at an intact family.
Add to that the fact that he was genuinely remorseful and wanted to reconcile, wanted to be a better man, a better husband, a good father....and I made the call to stay.
The second time, though...so much had changed.
We had the kids, and while I had no doubt he loved them very, very much, it was also true and fair to say that he resented the hell out of them quite frequently.
He hated the way we had to modify our lives around them. He hated not being able to just pick up and go somewhere at a moment's notice, or tour quiet museums for hours on end, or eat at restaurants with tablecloths. He hated that they fought him over eating all their dinner, or climbed in our bed sometimes in the morning and crowded him. He hated that they wouldn't leave him alone when his TV shows were on. He hated that we had to accommodate nap times and bed times and diaper changes and food preferences when we were out and about. He hated that all our friends had kids and all we all talked about when we got together was our kids. He hated that I couldn't just drop the laundry on a Saturday afternoon and go upstairs and have sex without a kid beating on the bedroom door looking for me.
I speak from experience on that last one.
In short, the kids just inconvenienced him a lot more than me. It's not that I didn't get grumpy over any or all of those things on occasion, but I realized that they're only young for awhile and this won't always be our life. I realized that there's not a whole lot we can do about all of that, except adapt. I realized that we signed up for this. Both of our pregnancies were as planned as planned can be, so we knew there would be sacrifices.
I just seemed to roll with them, and he could only wallow in all he'd lost. All he didn't get to do anymore, or do as easily.
And that, quite honestly, helped me make the final decision.
Because the truth of the matter was, he would be a better parent if he didn't have to be one all the time, and I knew that. If he had several days off a week, and a few weekends off a month to go do all that stuff he can't do easily or maybe at all when the kids are around, he'd be happier. Much happier.
And really, it was a gamble trying to salvage our relationship with each other. His track record wasn't stellar, after all. As hard as this was going to be on my kids, I knew that in time, we'd all be better for this.
I was right.
In some ways, he's the stereotypical "Disney Dad," in that he's the one with the big income, so he does the big stuff. Disney was him. Week-long stays at a condo on the beach are him. Amusement parks and back-to-school shopping at Hollister and Hot Topic are him. iPods and iPhones and laptops are him. Dinner out on his mid-week night and at least once on his weekend is him.
Me? I'm the let's pack a picnic lunch and go for a hike parent. I'm the living room campout and movie night parent. I'm the tent camping at the local campground for $31 a night and we're eating macaroni and hot dogs made on the camp stove parent. I'm the lets make our own pizza, it'll taste better anyway parent. And that's all okay. We have a lot of fun.
I had to set some hard boundaries early on. I used to keep a journal to document it all, but in the first four months of his custodial weekends - which by our agreement go from 6pm Friday night through to 6am Monday morning, he attempted to bring the kids back early (Sunday afternoon) on every occasion. He changed his mid-week custodial night on a fairly frequent basis, to better accommodate his date nights with his girlfriend, or her custodial schedule with her child. I finally started pushing back, insisting he honor his commitments to me, and more importantly, to them, and he did.
Now he's learned. He's taken them to pediatrician visits and birthday parties. He's sat with them and done homework and worked on school projects. He's sat in the stands and watched cheerleaders and chorus concerts. He's played board games and video games with them. He's cooked with them and built forts with them and laughed with them and watched TV with them and probably spent more quality time cumulatively with them than he did in all the years before he left combined. He's learned to make the time with them count more, because there isn't so much of it.
And maybe, just maybe, he's realized that there's a finite amount of it, too.
Ellie is the author of David And Me Under The Sea: Essays From A Decade With Autism.


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I've been reflecting a bit on what government officials & policymakers should learn from the Covid-19 crisis. While history, with the benefit of hindsight and data, will be the ultimate judge, a few things jump out to me as obvious:
- A few decades lucky streak of no major pandemic should not make anyone complacent on the importance of public health. Many Americans, at the onset of the crisis, simply assumed that pandemics were like the bubonic plague or ebola: concerns for a faraway time and place. But the unpleasant reality is infections have been with us since before civilization and will continue long after the current crisis ends. All our modern conveniences and sophistication don't mean a damn to a microbe. As a result, making sure public health leadership and infrastructure is in place and has the emergency powers and resources it needs when crisis hits is absolutely vital.
- I think there are very good reasons to want a single payer healthcare system, and plenty of reasons to be wary of one. But, despite the efforts of pundits, I think Covid-19 is largely irrelevant to this debate. The practical reality is many countries with single payer systems (like those in Europe) appear to have been completely incapable of managing this while some without it (ie China) have. This is not to say China did everything perfectly (obviously they didn't and I pray they've learned this time to permanently shut down wildlife wet markets) nor that single payer systems are to blame for whats happening in places like Italy (it's not). But even holding aside how the term "single payer" papers over important nuances about how different "single payer" systems mix different levels of private coverage in, the truth of the matter is that countries that have been able to control and contain the disease share more around bold actions by public health officials than they do around how exactly healthcare is provisioned. The "Medicare for all" debate needs to be had and resolved — I'm not cheapening that — but I just don't think Covid-19 is particularly relevant for either side of it.
- Sick leave is critical for public health. People who are sick need to feel like they can stay home and not jeopardize their financial well being. Otherwise economic activity (which we can't all avoid: everyone eventually needs food even when locked down on quarantine) becomes increasingly the domain of those who are sick but forced to be working from economic desperation.
- Confused and contradictory messaging from government officials is NOT helpful. When different officials give wildly different responses (see Devin Nunes encouraging people to go out for dinner earlier Sunday vs. the Director of NIAID advocating for a national lockdown), is it any wonder that the public can't tell how seriously to take this? On the one hand, we have toilet paper shortages at stores and on the other hand people in this club in Nashville last night are partying as if nothing was happening).
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- The internet may not have been this before but its certainly now a utility that is necessary for education and the modern workforce. We should act accordingly as it pertains to increasing access and maintaining it as an open platform for all.
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- Study protocol
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Impact of drug reconciliation at discharge and communication between hospital and community pharmacists on drug-related problems: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
Trials volume 15, Article number: 260 (2014)
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Patients are at risk of drug-related problems (DRPs) at transition points during hospitalization. The community pharmacist (CP) is often the first healthcare professional patients visit after discharge. CPs lack sufficient information about the patient and so they may be unable to identify problems in medications, which may lead to dispensing the wrong drugs or dosage, and/or giving wrong information. We aim to assess the impact of a complex intervention comprising of medication reconciliation performed at discharge by a hospital pharmacist (HP) with communication between the HP and CP on DRPs during the seven days following discharge.
The study is a cluster randomized crossover trial involving 46 care units (each unit corresponding to a cluster) in 22 French hospitals during two consecutive 14-day periods, randomly assigned as 'experimental' or 'control' (usual care) periods. We will recruit patients older than 18 years of age and visiting the same CP for at least three months. We will exclude patients with a hospital length of stay of more than 21 days, who do not return home or those in palliative care. During the experimental period, the HP will perform a medications reconciliation that will be communicated to the patient. The HP will inform the patient's CP about the patient's drug therapy (modification in home medication, acute drugs prescribed, nonprescription treatments, and/or lab results). The primary outcome will be a composite outcome of any kind of drug misuse during the seven days following discharge assessed at day seven (±2) post-discharge by a pharmacist in charge of the study who will contact both patients and CPs by phone. The secondary outcome will be unplanned hospitalizations assessed by phone contact at day 35 (±5) after discharge. We plan to recruit 1,176 patients.
This study will assess the impact of a reconciliation of medications performed at patient discharge followed by communication between the HP and the patient's CP. It will allow for identifying the type of patients in France for which the intervention is most relevant.
Trial registration
This study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (number: NCT02006797) on 5 December 2013.
Drug-related problems (DRPs) are defined as an 'event or circumstance involving drug therapy that actually or potentially interferes with desired health outcomes'[1]. These problems are the cause of about 11% of the iatrogenic problems and could be avoided.
In France, the national survey of all serious adverse events associated with care (ENEIS) showed that 1.3% of hospitalizations (between 100,000 and 120,000 a year) are due to a serious drug-related iatrogenic event and are therefore avoidable[2]. Furthermore, more than half occur after a new prescription at admission or during discharge. In fact, the French health authority, through an accreditation procedure, requires hospitals to ensure treatment continuity from admission to discharge[3].
An estimated 7 to 30% of patients present a DRP at hospital admission[4]. A reconciliation of medications supported by efficient communication between the hospital staff and community pharmacists (CPs), in addition to a standard patient interview and a general practitioner's examination of prescriptions, was found to be effective in identifying medication discrepancies for inpatients[5, 6]. Approximately 25 to 87% of patients experience DRPs after hospital discharge[7–14]. Drug reconciliation before discharge was also found to be effective and could decrease DRPs by 50% when performed by a medical and/or pharmaceutical team; pharmaceutical teams were more effective in this process than medical or nursing teams[15–18].
Medication reconciliation is defined as the formal process of checking the complete, accurate list of a patient's previous medication and comparing it with the prescriptions after a transition of care (on admission, after transfer to another medical unit, and at discharge)[19]. The process has been recommended since 2005 by the Joint Commission on Accreditation to prevent errors. Countries such as Germany, the Netherlands, and France are involved in the World Health Organization (WHO) High 5's procedure and particularly in medication reconciliation at admission[20, 21]. Discrepancies between hospital treatment and home medication must be discussed with the prescriber and modifications made if necessary[19]. In fact, non-intentional discrepancies (NIDs) or intentional discrepancies (IDs) may be observed. An ID is a voluntary change in the patient's medication (unnecessary drugs, route or dose change, or conformation to the hospital formulary). NIDs (wrong route or dose, missing treatment, or added drug) are considered medication errors. Among NIDs, 40 to 59% are potential causes of adverse events and 33% actually lead to adverse events[19].
Several experiments have been conducted in North America or Europe to increase the quality of information at discharge, considering that well-informed patients and/or caregivers can manage the drug treatment on their own. However, few studies have focused on the role of the CP at discharge, both in the reconciliation process and/or the information needed to reduce DRPs (such as the medical discharge letter)[22, 23].
The primary objective of this study is to investigate a hospital pharmacist (HP) performing a reconciliation of medications with the patient at discharge, followed by communication between the HP and the CP, and their impact on the incidence of DRPs in patients during the seven days after discharge. The potential harmfulness of DRPs will be appraised by an expert committee. Secondary objectives are patient satisfaction and subgroup analyses.
This study will be a cluster randomized crossover controlled trial. The clusters will be hospital units, each involved during two consecutive 14-day periods (one when the assessed intervention will apply and the other as the control period). For each unit, the order of the two periods will be randomized (intervention followed by control, or vice versa).
We planned the study as a cluster trial because of methodological issues. Indeed, randomization of patients would have implied fully informing them of the study, thus increasing the risk of group contamination. Conversely, randomizing clusters allows for patients to receive partial information; patients included in the usual care group will be unaware that some patients will have a reconciliation procedure performed at discharge. Therefore, we planned the study as a crossover trial because: 1) the risk of cross-contamination is minimal (residual effect on a short period is null); 2) even if a residual effect exists, it is a superiority test that would lead to minimizing the intervention effect; 3) the crossover trial allows for increasing the statistical power and thereby balancing the power lost with the cluster design[24]; and 4) a crossover design offers better balance between groups, which is of importance in our study due to the high heterogeneity in units.
Setting and participants
In total, 22 French HPs working in hospitals all over the French country have agreed to participate. Each HP selected two units (one surgical, one medical) in their hospital. Units for which a pharmaceutical reconciliation procedure at admission or discharge was already in place were not eligible. The medical heads of the units also agreed to participate. We will exclude patients with a length of stay of more than 21 days (as there can be too many therapeutic modifications during the stay), who do not return home, who are in palliative care and/or near the end of life, and who are not able to understand the topic.
CPs working in the area around the hospital will participate by the inclusion of their patients in the study. They will be informed of the study in three ways: a professional journal supported by the pharmacist unions, a professional journal supported by the national council of the order of pharmacists, and a letter sent by the study scientific committee distributed by wholesale drug distributors.
The primary outcome is a composite one comprising of any problem or dysfunction observed during the seven days after discharge. More specifically, we will consider any of the following problems: 1) the drug is not the correct one (name, form, route, or dose); 2) the patient does not take what was prescribed and/or takes treatments that should have been stopped; and 3) the patient could not obtain the medication when visiting the pharmacy, which causes a gap in the continuity and duration of therapy.
The primary outcome will be assessed at day seven (±2) after discharge, by a pharmacist specifically recruited for the study. This pharmacist will contact both patients and CPs by phone to assess the possible incidence of a DRP after discharge.
For each DRP, an expert committee composed of physicians (one nephrologist, one cardiologist, one gastroenterologist, and a clinical pharmacist) will assess the potential medical impact of the DRP in terms of its severity (from 0: no problem, to 3: life-threatening) using Bayliff's scale[25]. The severity of the identified DRP will be one of the secondary outcomes.
Other secondary outcomes will be: 1) the number of non-planned hospitalizations during the 35 days after discharge (assessed by phone by the pharmacist recruited for the study); and 2) patients and CP satisfaction (assessed at day seven with a four-item Likert scale by phone). We will also assess the time taken by the HP to perform the intervention (medication reconciliation and communication to CP) and the proportion of drug prescriptions modified by the HP at discharge. DRP will be studied in following five subgroups: 1/less or over or equal to 75-years-old, 2/less or over or equal to 4 drugs prescribed 3/expensive or not-expensive medication 4/surgery or medical-unit and 5/planned or non-planned hospitalization.
The flow of the intervention is outlined in Figure 1. In the experimental group, the HP will be in charge of the discharge reconciliation and its communication to the CP. To standardize this nonpharmacological intervention over the different hospitals[26], HPs will receive training in the reconciliation procedure by an experienced clinical pharmacist who is accredited by the French Society of Clinical Pharmacy (SFPC).
The intervention consists of: 1) identifying the patient's regular CP, 2) completing a short document including the reason for hospitalization, therapeutic modifications in terms of the home medication, and lab results necessary to understand and/or accept the prescription (estimated glomerular filtration rate, Na and K levels, coagulation results, and so on), 3) controlling the discharge prescription and, if needed, discussing it with the physician and recording it on the SFPC card[27], 4) explaining the treatment to the patient and the modifications made, 5) phoning the CP to explain the patient's inclusion in the study, the discharge time, and the modifications in treatment, and 6) sending the CP the prescription sheet via a secure email before patient discharge. The CP will then receive visits from the patient or caregiver as usual. For the control group, pharmaceutical care will be performed as usual, with no reconciliation procedure at discharge and no contact with the CP. REPHVIM study is outlined in Figure 2.
Because of the nature of the assessed intervention, blinding will not be possible for patients or care providers (HPs and CPs). Also, we did not include a blinded outcome assessor because blinding could be easily broken when contacting patients and CPs. Therefore, the present study is fully open, without reliable blinding. The only blinded outcome is a secondary one; the expert committee in charge of assessing the potential medical impact of the DRP will be blinded.
Sample size calculation
This study is a superiority trial with a binary decision criterion. We hypothesized a DRP rate of 45% in the experimental group as compared to 60% in the control group[7]. Considering a 90% power and a 5% two-sided alpha level, we would need 235 patients per group with a trial of two parallel, individually randomized groups. We used a sample size calculation software (nQuery Advisor -2005- Version 6.0 Los Angeles, CA. Copyright © 2005 by Janet D. Elashoff). In addition, because the trial is a cluster randomized crossover trial, we assessed both intraclass and interclass correlations[24, 28]. We therefore applied an inflation factor equal to:
where P is the number of patients in a cluster, ρ is the intraclass correlation coefficient and η is the interclass correlation coefficient. We considered a high value for the intraclass correlation coefficient because the outcome is a process, and because of the incidence of about 50%[29]. Naturally, η is expected to be lower than ρ, and we chose the value of η to be half that of ρ as advised[24]. We will use a value of 0.2 for ρ and 0.1 for η.
Because we identified 46 units, we planned to recruit 10.2 patients in each unit for each period. We plan to perform a sensitivity analysis excluding patients without data at day seven after discharge, and so we fixed the number of patients to be recruited in each period to 14. In the end, we expect to recruit 14 patients in each of the 46 units in each period, for 1,176 patients.
Statistical analysis
The primary analysis will be conducted within the framework of a hierarchical model, inspired by the work of Turner et al.[30]. Under this model, two levels of correlation are considered: intra-cluster correlation and cross-correlation period. Secondary outcomes will also be analyzed with hierarchical models. Subgroup analyzes will consider patient characteristics (age and pathology), drugs classes, nature of the unit (surgery or medical), number of home treatments, day of discharge (weekday or weekend), whether it is an expensive drug (more than 150€ per unit) is prescribed, and whether some medications require temperature control.
Funding source and regulatory aspects
This study is sponsored by the French Ministry of Health (PREPS 2012 number 12-10-0054). The CHRU of Tours is the promoter and is in charge of all the administrative measures. The local ethics committee (CPP TOURS - Region Centre - Ouest 1) approved the study for all centers. Indeed, French legislation requires just one ethic committee's approval for all centers. We were asked by the CPP TOURS - Region Centre - Ouest 1 to provide a signed commitment from all the heads of the involved care units. In Table 1 we report the list of those units. Also as authorized by French law, the requirement for patient written consent was not necessary and only information about the study was to be given to patient[31]. In fact the patient can always refuse to participate. The French committees for data handling (CCTIRS and CNIL) approved the study. This trial was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (number NCT02006797 on 5 December 2013, Relation between hospital and community pharmacists and drug-related problems (REPHVIM)).
The scientific committee will be in charge of the publications to report the results of the present study. Reports will follow the CONSORT statement and its extensions (for both cluster randomized trials and nonpharmacological interventions), as well as the TIDER checklist.
This study will investigate the effect of HP reconciling medications with the patient at discharge and communicating with the patient's CP on preventing DRPs. The subgroups study will evaluate the patients for which the process would be efficient. The French Society of Clinical Pharmacy is expected to write recommendations and promote communication between HPs and CPs. We expect a decrease in DRPs from 60 to 45%.
The success of the study depends on the ability of the HP to enroll patients in the study. The units have been chosen for their possibility of having more than one discharge a day. Most are surgery units (orthopedic, urology, or general surgery) and medical units (nephrology, gastroenterology, internal medicine, and so on) with a large number of beds (more than 20) and a mean length of stay from 5 to 11 days. Patients in the intervention group need to spend only a few minutes of discussion with the HP. This intervention will need to be performed as soon as possible once discharge is planned. Indeed, at discharge, patients are usually stressed with transport and other administrative issues, so they may be less receptive to discuss their treatment.
To optimize and standardize the intervention assessed, the scientific committee has established a training program for HPs. Also, quality documents have been written to ensure performance of the same intervention. Outcome assessments will be performed centrally by two pharmacists (pharmacists in charge of the study) specially recruited for the study, which will favor homogeneity in the phone interviews.
Trial status
At this time, 44 units have been recruited since 21 January 2014 and 340 patients have been included.
Community pharmacist
Hospital (Centre Hospitalier)
University hospital (Centre Hospitalier Universitaire) DRP, Drug-related problem
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Estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate
National Study on Iatrogenic Event Avoidable
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Hospital pharmacist
Intentional discrepancy
Non intentional discrepancy
Pharmacist in charge of the study
Research program on the performance of care system
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XP: writing the protocol, submitting protocol to DGOS, acquiring the funds, enrolling the hospitals, link with SFPC, planning the study, responsible for the scientific committee. CR: test the eCRF, check the procedure for reconciliation, checking the study process. BB: co-writing the protocol, member of the scientific committee, link with the CP union. VG: co-writing the protocol, member of the scientific committee, link with the CP union. AD: co-writing the protocol, member of the scientific committee, link with SFPC. BA: co-writing the protocol, member of the scientific committee, test the eCRF. MF: co-writing the protocol, member of the scientific committee, link with the National Council of the Order of Pharmacists. JMH: co-writing the protocol, member of the scientific committee, responsible for medical experts committee. JG: co-writing and correcting the protocol, member of the scientific committee, past vice-president of SFPC. BG: writing and correcting the protocol, responsible for methodology, head of the clinical research department (responsible for clinical research associate, teams in charge of eCRF and data manager). All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
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Pourrat, X., Roux, C., Bouzige, B. et al. Impact of drug reconciliation at discharge and communication between hospital and community pharmacists on drug-related problems: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials 15, 260 (2014). https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.1186/1745-6215-15-260
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- cluster randomized crossover trial
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- drug reconciliation


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