Compliance Of Medication After Discharge From the Hospital in the Elderly

Completed

Conditions studied: Compliance of Medications, Factors That May Affect Compliance

In brief

Many elderly patients have multiple medications and variable dosing regimens and the ability for hospitals to properly reconcile medications between what is given on paper to the patient and what the patients take at home depends on the patient's ability to get the medications. Some patients may delay in getting their medications from the pharmacy after being discharged. For some it may be a lack of transportation, others may feel too ill to travel and may not have family members who will be able to pick up the medications. It is for these reasons the authors of this study want to inventory the medications that an elderly patient is being discharged on during a home visit and check on the actual prescriptions that a patient has at their house the following 1-2 days after discharge.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01017432

Run by

Corewell Health East

People needed

200

Starts

2008-12-01

Expected to finish

2011-01-01

Last updated by the study team

2011-04-05

Who can join

Age: 65 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Elderly patients (age 65 or older)
• Able to make own decisions (Patient has autonomy) and therefore able to make informed decisions
• Patients with medications upon discharge from the hospital

You may not qualify if…

• Patients that have the inability to give informed consent secondary to: cognitive disabilities, inability to speak or write or refusal to participate in study.
• Patients that are younger than the age of 65.

Where it is running

• William Beaumont Hospital — Royal Oak, Michigan, United States
• William Beaumont Hospital — Troy, Michigan, United States

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