Text-message Support to Improve Oral Antibiotic Adherence After ED Discharge

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Conditions studied: Medication Adherence

In brief

The investigators are testing the hypothesis that patients who are exposed to daily text-message (TM) assessments with feedback will have better adherence to prescription than those patients not exposed to TM-based queries with feedback.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01388465

Run by

University of Pittsburgh

People needed

200

Starts

2011-06-01

Expected to finish

2011-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2012-05-21

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Ages 18 and older
• Planned discharge form the ED on oral antibiotics

You may not qualify if…

• non-English speaking
• Prisoner
• No personal mobile phone with text message features

Where it is running

• UPMC Mercy Emergency Department — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

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