Patient Knowledge of Medication Indication

Completed

Conditions studied: Medical Audit

In brief

This is a study to compare patient knowledge about the indications of their medications between two sites. Regions Hospital has a population of patients that receive the medication indication on the label for any new or changed medications at the time of patient discharge. Brigham Women's Health follows a standard policy of discharge medication labels including the name of the medication and instructions for use without any indication of what the medication is intended to treat. Consented patient will receive a phone call where researchers will ask about which medications they are taking and other questions about those medications. The study population will be patients recently discharged from the hospital with 1 or more new or changed medications

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03125278

Run by

HealthPartners Institute

People needed

40

Starts

2017-04-11

Expected to finish

2017-10-31

Last updated by the study team

2018-06-07

Who can join

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

You may qualify if…

• Hospital Medicine (HM) inpatient being discharged to home
• Patient being discharged with ≥ 1 new or changed medications
• English speaker

You may not qualify if…

• Inpatient being discharged to nursing home or TCU facility
• Patient being discharged with no new or changed medications
• Non-English speaker

Where it is running

• Brigham and Women's Hospital — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Regions Hospital — Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States

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