Cancer Patients' Medication Knowledge in the Emergency Center

Completed

Conditions studied: Advanced Cancer

In brief

The goal of the study is to learn about patients' knowledge of their medications in an outpatient acute care setting (such as the M. D. Anderson Emergency Center) and to learn about any clinical factors that affect patients' knowledge of their medications.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00385476

Run by

M.D. Anderson Cancer Center

People needed

308

Starts

2005-08-01

Expected to finish

2009-02-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-08-01

Who can join

Age: 16 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Patients admitted to the Emergency Center
• Patients must be able to read and write English
• Patients must agree to participate and sign informed consent
• Patients 16 years or above. (Age limit explained below)
• Patients must be able to complete the survey tool. They may have help from a caregiver in transcribing the information but the caregiver can not fill the tool independent of the patient. A research assistant will be trained to discriminate whether a caregiver is acting as a scriber or independently completing the tool. If the caregiver completes the tool independently, the patient will be excluded from the study.

You may not qualify if…

• Patients with altered mental status and those with an acute, emergent illness and hemodynamic instability (Examples: status epileptics, sepsis, and cardiac arrest)
• Employees of the institution with work-related injuries
• Visitors who are non-cancer patients
• Patients transferred directly from another hospital
• Patients will be excluded after their first enrollment during the study period. (Can only be enrolled once though may have multiple Emergency Center visits during study time frame).
• Patients will be excluded if all prescribed medications are filled at an external pharmacy and this pharmacy is not accessible.

Where it is running

• U.T.M.D. Anderson Cancer Center — Houston, Texas, United States

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