Efficacy of a Behavioral Based Education Intervention to Decrease Medication History Errors Among Professional Nurses.

Status unconfirmed · Early Phase 1

Conditions studied: Medication Errors

In brief

The purpose of the study is to determine if a behavioral knowledge based education intervention will decrease medication transcription errors among professional nurses when admitting elder patients to a hospital. The hypothesis is those professional nurses who receive the behavioral-cognitive eduction medication taking intervention will have fewer medication errors than those professional nurses who do not.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00845494

Run by

Waukesha Memorial Hospital

People needed

140

Starts

2009-02-01

Expected to finish

2010-10-01

Last updated by the study team

2009-02-18

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 70. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Nurses working 20 hours a week or more

You may not qualify if…

• Nurses working less than 20 hours a week
• Nurse working as a float or pool nurse

Where it is running

• Waukesha Memorial Hospital — Waukesha, Wisconsin, United States

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